essayés

Essayés is the masculine plural form of the past participle essayé, from the French verb essayer, meaning to try or to attempt. In French, the participle agrees with the noun it modifies: essayé (masculine singular), essayée (feminine singular), essayés (masculine plural), essayées (feminine plural). As an adjective, essayé denotes that something has been tried, attempted, or tested.

Usage and interpretation: essayés describes objects, methods, or procedures that have been subjected to testing or experimentation. It is commonly used in everyday language and in technical or scientific contexts. For example, des méthodes essayées indicate methods that have been tried and are considered workable to some extent. In scientific discourse, the related noun essai refers to an experiment or trial, with the plural essais used for multiple trials; thus, essayé and essai occupy related but distinct syntactic roles.

Differences and relationships: essayé is not a stand-alone noun; it behaves as an adjective or a past participle in compound tenses. The closest English equivalents are “tried,” “tested,” or “experimental,” depending on nuance. Collocations include les méthodes essayées, les procédures essayées, and des essais cliniques (clinical trials), where essais denotes formal investigations rather than everyday attempts.

Examples: Les techniques essayées par l’équipe ont été intégrées au protocole. Des solutions essayées ont été explorées mais n’ont pas toutes abouti. Etymology: derived from the verb essayer, whose core sense is to attempt or to test, with standard agreement rules applying to the participle.