to test, to try on · to try, to attempt · to try one's hand
çekim: geçmiş essayé · ortaç essayé · şimdiki essaye · ulaç essayant
eş: faire en sorte, tenter
köken: Inherited from Middle French essayer, essaier, from Old French essaiier, essayer, essaier, from essay, essai (“attempt; assay; experiment”) + -er (“infinitive-forming suffix”), from Late Latin exagium (“weight; weighing, testing on the balance”), from Latin exigere + -ium, from ex- + agere, from Proto-Italic *agō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti.
Essayez cette chemise.
J'ai essayé d'apprendre le piano.
Des psychologues ont essayé d'analyser quels traits physiques étaient considérés comme attirants.
to try (to attempt to do or achieve something) · to try, to taste (to sample the flavor of something) · to try (to do something for the first time to experience it)
to attempt, to try; to test, to put to the test, to find out, to prove; therefore, to make trial of a person or thing · to experience, to go through, to observe, to suffer, to endure, to sustain, to witness · to do, fare
çekim: ortaç expertus · şimdiki experītur · ulaç experiēns
köken: From ex- + *perior (“try, dare, risk”), itself from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to go through”) (though De Vaan instead derives the root of the word from pariō (“to give birth to, bear”), from Proto-Indo-European *perh₃- (“to provide, produce”); compare also the etymologies of comperiō and reperiō, both meaning “to find out”).