goûter

See also: gouter

French

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French gouster, from Old French goster, inherited from Latin gustāre. Compare the borrowed prefixed verb déguster.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɡu.te/
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Verb

goûter

  1. to taste, to try (to sample something orally)
    Synonym: déguster
    Je goûterai ta tarte demain car j’ai goûté un fameux tiramisu tout à l’heure.
    I will taste your pie tomorrow, since I have just tasted an excellent tiramisu.
  2. (Belgium, Quebec) to taste like
    Cette tarte goûte la cannelle. ― This pie tastes like cinnamon.
  3. (figurative) to approve, to appreciate
    Le public goûte peu ces sortes d’ouvrages.
    The public has little taste for these sorts of works.
    Après tant de troubles le pays goûtait un calme profond.
    After so much unrest, the country enjoyed a period of profound calm.
    • 1857, Phillippe Athanase Cucheval-Clarigny, Histoire de la presse en Angleterre et aux États-Unis, page 472:
      Réunies en volumes, ces lettres ont été goûtées en Angleterre presque autant qu’aux États-Unis, et ont eu plusieurs éditions.
      Collected in volumes, these letters were appreciated in England almost as much as they were in the US, and several editions were published.

Conjugation
Conjugation of goûter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple goûter
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple goûtant
/ɡu.tɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle goûté
/ɡu.te/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present goûte
/ɡut/		 goûtes
/ɡut/		 goûte
/ɡut/		 goûtons
/ɡu.tɔ̃/		 goûtez
/ɡu.te/		 goûtent
/ɡut/
imperfect goûtais
/ɡu.tɛ/		 goûtais
/ɡu.tɛ/		 goûtait
/ɡu.tɛ/		 goûtions
/ɡu.tjɔ̃/		 goûtiez
/ɡu.tje/		 goûtaient
/ɡu.tɛ/
past historic2 goûtai
/ɡu.te/		 goûtas
/ɡu.ta/		 goûta
/ɡu.ta/		 goûtâmes
/ɡu.tam/		 goûtâtes
/ɡu.tat/		 goûtèrent
/ɡu.tɛʁ/
future goûterai
/ɡu.tʁe/		 goûteras
/ɡu.tʁa/		 goûtera
/ɡu.tʁa/		 goûterons
/ɡu.tʁɔ̃/		 goûterez
/ɡu.tʁe/		 goûteront
/ɡu.tʁɔ̃/
conditional goûterais
/ɡu.tʁɛ/		 goûterais
/ɡu.tʁɛ/		 goûterait
/ɡu.tʁɛ/		 goûterions
/ɡu.tə.ʁjɔ̃/		 goûteriez
/ɡu.tə.ʁje/		 goûteraient
/ɡu.tʁɛ/
(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 goûte
/ɡut/		 goûtes
/ɡut/		 goûte
/ɡut/		 goûtions
/ɡu.tjɔ̃/		 goûtiez
/ɡu.tje/		 goûtent
/ɡut/
imperfect2 goûtasse
/ɡu.tas/		 goûtasses
/ɡu.tas/		 goûtât
/ɡu.ta/		 goûtassions
/ɡu.ta.sjɔ̃/		 goûtassiez
/ɡu.ta.sje/		 goûtassent
/ɡu.tas/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — goûte
/ɡut/		 — goûtons
/ɡu.tɔ̃/		 goûtez
/ɡu.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).

Derived terms

Descendants
  • → German: goutieren

Noun

goûter m (plural goûters)

  1. nuncheon
  2. (France) meal similar to breakfast taken around 4 P.M
    Synonym: quatre-heures

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