festinar
Ido
Etymology
Borrowed from French festiner, or else from festino + -ar. Compare Esperanto festeni.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /festiˈnar/
Verb
festinar (present tense festinas, past tense festinis, future tense festinos, imperative festinez, conditional festinus)
- (intransitive) to feast
- (intransitive) to banquet
Conjugation
Conjugation of festinar
 | present | past | future | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | festinar | festinir | festinor | ||||
| tense | festinas | festinis | festinos | ||||
| conditional | festinus | ||||||
| imperative | festinez | ||||||
| adjective active participle | festinanta | festininta | festinonta | ||||
| adverbial active participle | festinante | festininte | festinonte | ||||
| nominal active participle | singular | festinanto | festininto | festinonto | |||
| plural | festinanti | festininti | festinonti | ||||
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin festīnāre, present active infinitive of festīnō (“to hurry”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /festiˈnaɾ/ [fes.t̪iˈnaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: fes‧ti‧nar
Verb
festinar (first-person singular present festino, first-person singular preterite festiné, past participle festinado)
- to speed up
- (transitive, Chile, Dominican Republic) to minimize, to downplay a matter or event
- (transitive, Ecuador) Synonym of malversar
- (transitive, dated, obsolete, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text
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Conjugation
Conjugation of festinar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
| infinitive | festinar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | festinando | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | festinado | festinada | |||||
| plural | festinados | festinadas | |||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
| indicative | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | festino | festinastú festinásvos | festina | festinamos | festináis | festinan | |
| imperfect | festinaba | festinabas | festinaba | festinábamos | festinabais | festinaban | |
| preterite | festiné | festinaste | festinó | festinamos | festinasteis | festinaron | |
| future | festinaré | festinarás | festinará | festinaremos | festinaréis | festinarán | |
| conditional | festinaría | festinarías | festinaría | festinaríamos | festinaríais | festinarían | |
| subjunctive | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | festine | festinestú festinésvos2 | festine | festinemos | festinéis | festinen | |
| imperfect (ra) | festinara | festinaras | festinara | festináramos | festinarais | festinaran | |
| imperfect (se) | festinase | festinases | festinase | festinásemos | festinaseis | festinasen | |
| future1 | festinare | festinares | festinare | festináremos | festinareis | festinaren | |
| imperative | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes | |
| affirmative | festinatú festinávos | festine | festinemos | festinad | festinen | ||
| negative | no festines | no festine | no festinemos | no festinéis | no festinen | ||
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Further reading
- “festinar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014