molester
English
Etymology
molest + -er
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /məˈlɛstɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /məˈlɛstə(ɹ)/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛstə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: mo‧lest‧er
Noun
molester (plural molesters)
- Agent noun of molest: one who molests.
Translations
one who molests
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Verb
molester (third-person singular simple present molesters, present participle molestering, simple past and past participle molestered)
- (rare, nonstandard) Alternative form of molest
- 2000, "The Wacky Molestation Adventure" (season 4, episode 16), South Park
- Kyle: I wish I didn't have any parents!
- Cartman: Well, you could make them go away for a while.
- Kyle: How?
- Cartman: Well, I mean, you could call the police and have them take your parents away.
- Stan: The police?
- Cartman: Yeah! I saw it on TV. All you gotta do is call the police, and say that your parents both molestered you.
- Kyle: What's that?
- Cartman: I don't know, but it works. When I wanted to get rid of my mom's last boyfriend, I just called the police, and said he was molestering me, and I haven't seen him for three months.
- 2000, "The Wacky Molestation Adventure" (season 4, episode 16), South Park
Anagrams
- telomers
Danish
Verb
molester
- imperative of molestere
French
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Verb
molester
- to molest
- to maul
Conjugation
Conjugation of molester (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | molester | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | molestant /mɔ.lɛs.tɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | molesté /mɔ.lɛs.te/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | moleste /mɔ.lɛst/ | molestes /mɔ.lɛst/ | moleste /mɔ.lɛst/ | molestons /mɔ.lɛs.tɔ̃/ | molestez /mɔ.lɛs.te/ | molestent /mɔ.lɛst/ |
imperfect | molestais /mɔ.lɛs.tɛ/ | molestais /mɔ.lɛs.tɛ/ | molestait /mɔ.lɛs.tɛ/ | molestions /mɔ.lɛs.tjɔ̃/ | molestiez /mɔ.lɛs.tje/ | molestaient /mɔ.lɛs.tɛ/ | |
past historic2 | molestai /mɔ.lɛs.te/ | molestas /mɔ.lɛs.ta/ | molesta /mɔ.lɛs.ta/ | molestâmes /mɔ.lɛs.tam/ | molestâtes /mɔ.lɛs.tat/ | molestèrent /mɔ.lɛs.tɛʁ/ | |
future | molesterai /mɔ.lɛs.tə.ʁe/ | molesteras /mɔ.lɛs.tə.ʁa/ | molestera /mɔ.lɛs.tə.ʁa/ | molesterons /mɔ.lɛs.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | molesterez /mɔ.lɛs.tə.ʁe/ | molesteront /mɔ.lɛs.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | molesterais /mɔ.lɛs.tə.ʁɛ/ | molesterais /mɔ.lɛs.tə.ʁɛ/ | molesterait /mɔ.lɛs.tə.ʁɛ/ | molesterions /mɔ.lɛs.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | molesteriez /mɔ.lɛs.tə.ʁje/ | molesteraient /mɔ.lɛs.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 | moleste /mɔ.lɛst/ | molestes /mɔ.lɛst/ | moleste /mɔ.lɛst/ | molestions /mɔ.lɛs.tjɔ̃/ | molestiez /mɔ.lɛs.tje/ | molestent /mɔ.lɛst/ |
imperfect2 | molestasse /mɔ.lɛs.tas/ | molestasses /mɔ.lɛs.tas/ | molestât /mɔ.lɛs.ta/ | molestassions /mɔ.lɛs.ta.sjɔ̃/ | molestassiez /mɔ.lɛs.ta.sje/ | molestassent /mɔ.lɛs.tas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | moleste /mɔ.lɛst/ | — | molestons /mɔ.lɛs.tɔ̃/ | molestez /mɔ.lɛs.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
- “molester”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.