gazer
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Etymology
Noun
gazer (plural gazers)
- One who gazes.
- c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
- I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; / I'll slay more gazers than the basilisk;
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 38:
- Like lightening flash, that hath the gazer burned, / So did the sight thereof their sense dismay, / That backe againe upon themselves they turned, / And with their ryder ranne perforce away:
- 1820, Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow:
- Knots of gazers and gossips were collected in the churchyard, at the bridge, and at the spot where the hat and pumpkin had been found.
- 1854, Henry David Thoreau, Walden, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co, published 1910, pages 86–7:
- I would observe, by the way, that it costs me nothing for curtains, for I have no gazers to shut out but the sun and moon, and I am willing that they should look in.
- 1914, Wassily Kandinsky, chapter V, in M.T.H. Sadler, Houghton Mifflin, transl., The Art of Spiritual Harmony, page 49:
- Keen lemon-yellow hurts the eye in time as a prolonged and shrill trumpet-note the ear, and the gazer turns away to seek relief in blue or green.
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Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Verb
gazer
- to gas (exterminate using gas)
- (slang) to smoke (a cigarette)
- (pronominal, se gazer) to rage, to become irate
- (informal) to go well, to be well (feeling)
- ça gaze? ― how's it going?
- oui, ça gaze. ― it's going alright
Conjugation
| infinitive | simple | gazer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | gazant /ɡa.zɑ̃/ or /ɡɑ.zɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | gazé /ɡa.ze/ or /ɡɑ.ze/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | gaze /ɡaz/ or /ɡɑz/ |
gazes /ɡaz/ or /ɡɑz/ |
gaze /ɡaz/ or /ɡɑz/ |
gazons /ɡa.zɔ̃/ or /ɡɑ.zɔ̃/ |
gazez /ɡa.ze/ or /ɡɑ.ze/ |
gazent /ɡaz/ or /ɡɑz/ |
| imperfect | gazais /ɡa.zɛ/ or /ɡɑ.zɛ/ |
gazais /ɡa.zɛ/ or /ɡɑ.zɛ/ |
gazait /ɡa.zɛ/ or /ɡɑ.zɛ/ |
gazions /ɡa.zjɔ̃/ or /ɡɑ.zjɔ̃/ |
gaziez /ɡa.zje/ or /ɡɑ.zje/ |
gazaient /ɡa.zɛ/ or /ɡɑ.zɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | gazai /ɡa.ze/ or /ɡɑ.ze/ |
gazas /ɡa.za/ or /ɡɑ.za/ |
gaza /ɡa.za/ or /ɡɑ.za/ |
gazâmes /ɡa.zam/ or /ɡɑ.zam/ |
gazâtes /ɡa.zat/ or /ɡɑ.zat/ |
gazèrent /ɡa.zɛʁ/ or /ɡɑ.zɛʁ/ | |
| future | gazerai /ɡaz.ʁe/ or /ɡɑz.ʁe/ |
gazeras /ɡaz.ʁa/ or /ɡɑz.ʁa/ |
gazera /ɡaz.ʁa/ or /ɡɑz.ʁa/ |
gazerons /ɡaz.ʁɔ̃/ or /ɡɑz.ʁɔ̃/ |
gazerez /ɡaz.ʁe/ or /ɡɑz.ʁe/ |
gazeront /ɡaz.ʁɔ̃/ or /ɡɑz.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | gazerais /ɡaz.ʁɛ/ or /ɡɑz.ʁɛ/ |
gazerais /ɡaz.ʁɛ/ or /ɡɑz.ʁɛ/ |
gazerait /ɡaz.ʁɛ/ or /ɡɑz.ʁɛ/ |
gazerions /ɡa.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ɡɑ.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
gazeriez /ɡa.zə.ʁje/ or /ɡɑ.zə.ʁje/ |
gazeraient /ɡaz.ʁɛ/ or /ɡɑz.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 | gaze /ɡaz/ or /ɡɑz/ |
gazes /ɡaz/ or /ɡɑz/ |
gaze /ɡaz/ or /ɡɑz/ |
gazions /ɡa.zjɔ̃/ or /ɡɑ.zjɔ̃/ |
gaziez /ɡa.zje/ or /ɡɑ.zje/ |
gazent /ɡaz/ or /ɡɑz/ |
| imperfect2 | gazasse /ɡa.zas/ or /ɡɑ.zas/ |
gazasses /ɡa.zas/ or /ɡɑ.zas/ |
gazât /ɡa.za/ or /ɡɑ.za/ |
gazassions /ɡa.za.sjɔ̃/ or /ɡɑ.za.sjɔ̃/ |
gazassiez /ɡa.za.sje/ or /ɡɑ.za.sje/ |
gazassent /ɡa.zas/ or /ɡɑ.zas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | gaze /ɡaz/ or /ɡɑz/ |
— | gazons /ɡa.zɔ̃/ or /ɡɑ.zɔ̃/ |
gazez /ɡa.ze/ or /ɡɑ.ze/ |
— | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Conjugation of gazer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
Related terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
Verb
gazer
- to gloss over; to cover up; to hush up
Conjugation
| infinitive | simple | gazer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | gazant /ɡa.zɑ̃/ or /ɡɑ.zɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | gazé /ɡa.ze/ or /ɡɑ.ze/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | gaze /ɡaz/ or /ɡɑz/ |
gazes /ɡaz/ or /ɡɑz/ |
gaze /ɡaz/ or /ɡɑz/ |
gazons /ɡa.zɔ̃/ or /ɡɑ.zɔ̃/ |
gazez /ɡa.ze/ or /ɡɑ.ze/ |
gazent /ɡaz/ or /ɡɑz/ |
| imperfect | gazais /ɡa.zɛ/ or /ɡɑ.zɛ/ |
gazais /ɡa.zɛ/ or /ɡɑ.zɛ/ |
gazait /ɡa.zɛ/ or /ɡɑ.zɛ/ |
gazions /ɡa.zjɔ̃/ or /ɡɑ.zjɔ̃/ |
gaziez /ɡa.zje/ or /ɡɑ.zje/ |
gazaient /ɡa.zɛ/ or /ɡɑ.zɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | gazai /ɡa.ze/ or /ɡɑ.ze/ |
gazas /ɡa.za/ or /ɡɑ.za/ |
gaza /ɡa.za/ or /ɡɑ.za/ |
gazâmes /ɡa.zam/ or /ɡɑ.zam/ |
gazâtes /ɡa.zat/ or /ɡɑ.zat/ |
gazèrent /ɡa.zɛʁ/ or /ɡɑ.zɛʁ/ | |
| future | gazerai /ɡaz.ʁe/ or /ɡɑz.ʁe/ |
gazeras /ɡaz.ʁa/ or /ɡɑz.ʁa/ |
gazera /ɡaz.ʁa/ or /ɡɑz.ʁa/ |
gazerons /ɡaz.ʁɔ̃/ or /ɡɑz.ʁɔ̃/ |
gazerez /ɡaz.ʁe/ or /ɡɑz.ʁe/ |
gazeront /ɡaz.ʁɔ̃/ or /ɡɑz.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | gazerais /ɡaz.ʁɛ/ or /ɡɑz.ʁɛ/ |
gazerais /ɡaz.ʁɛ/ or /ɡɑz.ʁɛ/ |
gazerait /ɡaz.ʁɛ/ or /ɡɑz.ʁɛ/ |
gazerions /ɡa.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ɡɑ.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
gazeriez /ɡa.zə.ʁje/ or /ɡɑ.zə.ʁje/ |
gazeraient /ɡaz.ʁɛ/ or /ɡɑz.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 | gaze /ɡaz/ or /ɡɑz/ |
gazes /ɡaz/ or /ɡɑz/ |
gaze /ɡaz/ or /ɡɑz/ |
gazions /ɡa.zjɔ̃/ or /ɡɑ.zjɔ̃/ |
gaziez /ɡa.zje/ or /ɡɑ.zje/ |
gazent /ɡaz/ or /ɡɑz/ |
| imperfect2 | gazasse /ɡa.zas/ or /ɡɑ.zas/ |
gazasses /ɡa.zas/ or /ɡɑ.zas/ |
gazât /ɡa.za/ or /ɡɑ.za/ |
gazassions /ɡa.za.sjɔ̃/ or /ɡɑ.za.sjɔ̃/ |
gazassiez /ɡa.za.sje/ or /ɡɑ.za.sje/ |
gazassent /ɡa.zas/ or /ɡɑ.zas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | gaze /ɡaz/ or /ɡɑz/ |
— | gazons /ɡa.zɔ̃/ or /ɡɑ.zɔ̃/ |
gazez /ɡa.ze/ or /ɡɑ.ze/ |
— | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Conjugation of gazer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
Further reading
- “gazer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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