zester

English

Etymology

From zest +‎ -er.

Noun

zester (plural zesters)

1. A kitchen implement used to remove the zest of citrus fruit.

Hypernyms

• (kitchen implement): bar tool, implement, kitchen implement

Translations

kitchen implement

Bulgarian: (please verify) белачка за цитруси f (belačka za citrusi) Finnish: sitrusraastin French: zesteuse (fr) f German: Fadenschneider, Zestenreißer (de) m, Zitronenschaber m, Zitrusschaber m Polish: skrobaczka do skórki cytrusów f Spanish: acanalador de fruta m

Anagrams

• Ertzes, Retzes, Setzer, trezes

French

Etymology

From zeste +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zɛs.te/

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Verb

zester

1. to zest

Conjugation

Conjugation of zester (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	zester
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	zestant /zɛs.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		zesté /zɛs.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	zeste /zɛst/	zestes /zɛst/	zeste /zɛst/	zestons /zɛs.tɔ̃/	zestez /zɛs.te/	zestent /zɛst/
	imperfect	zestais /zɛs.tɛ/	zestais /zɛs.tɛ/	zestait /zɛs.tɛ/	zestions /zɛs.tjɔ̃/	zestiez /zɛs.tje/	zestaient /zɛs.tɛ/
	past historic2	zestai /zɛs.te/	zestas /zɛs.ta/	zesta /zɛs.ta/	zestâmes /zɛs.tam/	zestâtes /zɛs.tat/	zestèrent /zɛs.tɛʁ/
	future	zesterai /zɛs.tə.ʁe/	zesteras /zɛs.tə.ʁa/	zestera /zɛs.tə.ʁa/	zesterons /zɛs.tə.ʁɔ̃/	zesterez /zɛs.tə.ʁe/	zesteront /zɛs.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	zesterais /zɛs.tə.ʁɛ/	zesterais /zɛs.tə.ʁɛ/	zesterait /zɛs.tə.ʁɛ/	zesterions /zɛs.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	zesteriez /zɛs.tə.ʁje/	zesteraient /zɛs.tə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	zeste /zɛst/	zestes /zɛst/	zeste /zɛst/	zestions /zɛs.tjɔ̃/	zestiez /zɛs.tje/	zestent /zɛst/
	imperfect2	zestasse /zɛs.tas/	zestasses /zɛs.tas/	zestât /zɛs.ta/	zestassions /zɛs.ta.sjɔ̃/	zestassiez /zɛs.ta.sje/	zestassent /zɛs.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	zeste /zɛst/	—	zestons /zɛs.tɔ̃/	zestez /zɛs.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “zester”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• restez, stérez, tersez