In the senses of “overcrowd (a place)” and “impede (a person)”: fromMiddle French andOld Frenchempestrer(“encumber”), influenced byEnglishpest. The modern sense is an extension of the sense “infest”. Comparable toEnglish constructionpest +-er(used to form frequentative verbs).
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pester (third-person singular simple presentpesters,present participlepestering,simple past and past participlepestered)
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pester (pluralpesters)
pester
pester m (pluralpesters,diminutivepestertje n)
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pester
| infinitive | simple | pester | |||||
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| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle orgerund1 | simple | pestant /pɛs.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | pesté /pɛs.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | peste /pɛst/ | pestes /pɛst/ | peste /pɛst/ | pestons /pɛs.tɔ̃/ | pestez /pɛs.te/ | pestent /pɛst/ |
| imperfect | pestais /pɛs.tɛ/ | pestais /pɛs.tɛ/ | pestait /pɛs.tɛ/ | pestions /pɛs.tjɔ̃/ | pestiez /pɛs.tje/ | pestaient /pɛs.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | pestai /pɛs.te/ | pestas /pɛs.ta/ | pesta /pɛs.ta/ | pestâmes /pɛs.tam/ | pestâtes /pɛs.tat/ | pestèrent /pɛs.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | pesterai /pɛs.tə.ʁe/ | pesteras /pɛs.tə.ʁa/ | pestera /pɛs.tə.ʁa/ | pesterons /pɛs.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | pesterez /pɛs.tə.ʁe/ | pesteront /pɛs.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | pesterais /pɛs.tə.ʁɛ/ | pesterais /pɛs.tə.ʁɛ/ | pesterait /pɛs.tə.ʁɛ/ | pesterions /pɛs.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | pesteriez /pɛs.tə.ʁje/ | pesteraient /pɛs.tə.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) | present perfect | present indicative ofavoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative ofavoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic ofavoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future ofavoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional ofavoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | peste /pɛst/ | pestes /pɛst/ | peste /pɛst/ | pestions /pɛs.tjɔ̃/ | pestiez /pɛs.tje/ | pestent /pɛst/ |
| imperfect2 | pestasse /pɛs.tas/ | pestasses /pɛs.tas/ | pestât /pɛs.ta/ | pestassions /pɛs.ta.sjɔ̃/ | pestassiez /pɛs.ta.sje/ | pestassent /pɛs.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive ofavoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive ofavoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | peste /pɛst/ | — | pestons /pɛs.tɔ̃/ | pestez /pɛs.te/ | — | |
| compound | — | simple imperative ofavoir + past participle | — | simple imperative ofavoir + past participle | simple imperative ofavoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the prepositionen. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
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FromProto-Slavic*pьstrъ(“variegated”).
pẹ́stər (comparativepẹ́strejši,superlativenȁjpẹ́strejši)
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| Hard | |||
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| masculine | feminine | neuter | |
| nom. sing. | péster | péstra | péstro |
| singular | |||
| masculine | feminine | neuter | |
| nominative | pésterind péstridef | péstra | péstro |
| genitive | péstrega | péstre | péstrega |
| dative | péstremu | péstri | péstremu |
| accusative | nominativeinan or genitiveanim | péstro | péstro |
| locative | péstrem | péstri | péstrem |
| instrumental | péstrim | péstro | péstrim |
| dual | |||
| masculine | feminine | neuter | |
| nominative | péstra | péstri | péstri |
| genitive | péstrih | péstrih | péstrih |
| dative | péstrima | péstrima | péstrima |
| accusative | péstra | péstri | péstri |
| locative | péstrih | péstrih | péstrih |
| instrumental | péstrima | péstrima | péstrima |
| plural | |||
| masculine | feminine | neuter | |
| nominative | péstri | péstre | péstra |
| genitive | péstrih | péstrih | péstrih |
| dative | péstrim | péstrim | péstrim |
| accusative | péstre | péstre | péstra |
| locative | péstrih | péstrih | péstrih |
| instrumental | péstrimi | péstrimi | péstrimi |