flibuster
French
Etymology
From flibuste + -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fli.bys.te/
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Verb
flibuster
- to buccaneer
- to steal; to filch
Conjugation
Conjugation of flibuster (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | flibuster | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | flibustant /fli.bys.tɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | flibusté /fli.bys.te/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | flibuste /fli.byst/ | flibustes /fli.byst/ | flibuste /fli.byst/ | flibustons /fli.bys.tɔ̃/ | flibustez /fli.bys.te/ | flibustent /fli.byst/ |
imperfect | flibustais /fli.bys.tɛ/ | flibustais /fli.bys.tɛ/ | flibustait /fli.bys.tɛ/ | flibustions /fli.bys.tjɔ̃/ | flibustiez /fli.bys.tje/ | flibustaient /fli.bys.tɛ/ | |
past historic2 | flibustai /fli.bys.te/ | flibustas /fli.bys.ta/ | flibusta /fli.bys.ta/ | flibustâmes /fli.bys.tam/ | flibustâtes /fli.bys.tat/ | flibustèrent /fli.bys.tɛʁ/ | |
future | flibusterai /fli.bys.tə.ʁe/ | flibusteras /fli.bys.tə.ʁa/ | flibustera /fli.bys.tə.ʁa/ | flibusterons /fli.bys.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | flibusterez /fli.bys.tə.ʁe/ | flibusteront /fli.bys.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | flibusterais /fli.bys.tə.ʁɛ/ | flibusterais /fli.bys.tə.ʁɛ/ | flibusterait /fli.bys.tə.ʁɛ/ | flibusterions /fli.bys.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | flibusteriez /fli.bys.tə.ʁje/ | flibusteraient /fli.bys.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 | flibuste /fli.byst/ | flibustes /fli.byst/ | flibuste /fli.byst/ | flibustions /fli.bys.tjɔ̃/ | flibustiez /fli.bys.tje/ | flibustent /fli.byst/ |
imperfect2 | flibustasse /fli.bys.tas/ | flibustasses /fli.bys.tas/ | flibustât /fli.bys.ta/ | flibustassions /fli.bys.ta.sjɔ̃/ | flibustassiez /fli.bys.ta.sje/ | flibustassent /fli.bys.tas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | flibuste /fli.byst/ | — | flibustons /fli.bys.tɔ̃/ | flibustez /fli.bys.te/ | — | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Further reading
- “flibuster”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.