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zapper
zapper
English
Noun
zapper (plural zappers)
- (colloquial) A remote control for a television.
- The news is starting on the other channel; hand me the zapper.
- A device that electrocutes ("zaps") with a high voltage, e.g. a bug zapper.
- (figuratively, by extension) Anything that exterminates.
- 1989, Microtimes (volume 6, page 140)
- If games are your life, the choice of a joystick is desperately important. Casual alien-zappers can get by with the cheapest generic Taiwanese clone-stick […]
- 2009, Jeffrey Bernstein, Liking the Child You Love
- You are going to go from being a toxic-thought overreactor to a toxic-thought zapper.
- 1989, Microtimes (volume 6, page 140)
Translations
remote control
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French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zape/
Verb
zapper
- to channel-hop, channel surf
- (figuratively) to dither, change one's opinion rapidly, vacillate
- to skip over
- (familiar) to forget
Conjugation
Conjugation of zapper (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | zapper | avoir zappé | |||||
| gerund | en zappant | en ayant zappé | |||||
| present participle | zappant /za.pɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | zappé /za.pe/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | zappe /zap/ |
zappes /zap/ |
zappe /zap/ |
zappons /za.pɔ̃/ |
zappez /za.pe/ |
zappent /zap/ |
| imperfect | zappais /za.pɛ/ |
zappais /za.pɛ/ |
zappait /za.pɛ/ |
zappions /za.pjɔ̃/ |
zappiez /za.pje/ |
zappaient /za.pɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | zappai /za.pe/ |
zappas /za.pa/ |
zappa /za.pa/ |
zappâmes /za.pam/ |
zappâtes /za.pat/ |
zappèrent /za.pɛʁ/ |
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| future | zapperai /za.pʁe/ |
zapperas /za.pʁa/ |
zappera /za.pʁa/ |
zapperons /za.pʁɔ̃/ |
zapperez /za.pʁe/ |
zapperont /za.pʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | zapperais /za.pʁɛ/ |
zapperais /za.pʁɛ/ |
zapperait /za.pʁɛ/ |
zapperions /za.pə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
zapperiez /za.pə.ʁje/ |
zapperaient /za.pʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | zappe /zap/ |
zappes /zap/ |
zappe /zap/ |
zappions /za.pjɔ̃/ |
zappiez /za.pje/ |
zappent /zap/ |
| imperfect1 |
zappasse /za.pas/ |
zappasses /za.pas/ |
zappât /za.pa/ |
zappassions /za.pa.sjɔ̃/ |
zappassiez /za.pa.sje/ |
zappassent /za.pas/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | zappe /zap/ |
— | zappons /za.pɔ̃/ |
zappez /za.pe/ |
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