pester
English
Etymology
In the senses of “overcrowd (a place)” and “impede (a person)”: from Middle French and Old French empestrer (“encumber”), influenced by English pest. The modern sense is an extension of the sense “infest”. Comparable to English construction pest + -er (used to form frequentative verbs).
Verb
pester (third-person singular simple present pesters, present participle pestering, simple past and past participle pestered)
- (transitive) To bother, harass, or annoy persistently.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
to annoy persistently
Dutch
Pronunciation
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Related terms
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɛ.ste/
Conjugation
Conjugation of pester (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | pestant /pɛs.tɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | pesté /pɛs.te/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | pester | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | pestant /pɛs.tɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | 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 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 | 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 of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | peste /pɛst/ |
— | pestons /pɛs.tɔ̃/ |
pestez /pɛs.te/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “pester” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Norwegian Bokmål
Slovene
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *pьstrъ (“variegated”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpèːstər/
- Tonal orthography: pẹ́stər
Declension
Declension of péster (hard)
| singular | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | |
| nominative | péster ind péstri def |
péstra | péstro |
| accusative | nominativeinan or genitiveanim | péstro | péstro |
| genitive | péstrega | péstre | péstrega |
| dative | péstremu | péstri | péstremu |
| locative | péstrem | péstri | péstrem |
| instrumental | péstrim | péstro | péstrim |
| dual | |||
| masculine | feminine | neuter | |
| nominative | péstra | péstri | péstri |
| accusative | péstra | péstri | péstri |
| genitive | péstrih | péstrih | péstrih |
| dative | péstrima | péstrima | péstrima |
| locative | péstrih | péstrih | péstrih |
| instrumental | péstrima | péstrima | péstrima |
| plural | |||
| masculine | feminine | neuter | |
| nominative | péstri | péstre | péstra |
| accusative | péstre | péstre | péstra |
| genitive | péstrih | péstrih | péstrih |
| dative | péstrim | péstrim | péstrim |
| locative | péstrih | péstrih | péstrih |
| instrumental | péstrimi | péstrimi | péstrimi |
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