festiner

French

Etymology

From festin +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

festiner

1. to feast

Conjugation

Conjugation of festiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	festiner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	festinant /fɛs.ti.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		festiné /fɛs.ti.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	festine /fɛs.tin/	festines /fɛs.tin/	festine /fɛs.tin/	festinons /fɛs.ti.nɔ̃/	festinez /fɛs.ti.ne/	festinent /fɛs.tin/
	imperfect	festinais /fɛs.ti.nɛ/	festinais /fɛs.ti.nɛ/	festinait /fɛs.ti.nɛ/	festinions /fɛs.ti.njɔ̃/	festiniez /fɛs.ti.nje/	festinaient /fɛs.ti.nɛ/
	past historic2	festinai /fɛs.ti.ne/	festinas /fɛs.ti.na/	festina /fɛs.ti.na/	festinâmes /fɛs.ti.nam/	festinâtes /fɛs.ti.nat/	festinèrent /fɛs.ti.nɛʁ/
	future	festinerai /fɛs.tin.ʁe/	festineras /fɛs.tin.ʁa/	festinera /fɛs.tin.ʁa/	festinerons /fɛs.tin.ʁɔ̃/	festinerez /fɛs.tin.ʁe/	festineront /fɛs.tin.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	festinerais /fɛs.tin.ʁɛ/	festinerais /fɛs.tin.ʁɛ/	festinerait /fɛs.tin.ʁɛ/	festinerions /fɛs.ti.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	festineriez /fɛs.ti.nə.ʁje/	festineraient /fɛs.tin.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	festine /fɛs.tin/	festines /fɛs.tin/	festine /fɛs.tin/	festinions /fɛs.ti.njɔ̃/	festiniez /fɛs.ti.nje/	festinent /fɛs.tin/
	imperfect2	festinasse /fɛs.ti.nas/	festinasses /fɛs.ti.nas/	festinât /fɛs.ti.na/	festinassions /fɛs.ti.na.sjɔ̃/	festinassiez /fɛs.ti.na.sje/	festinassent /fɛs.ti.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	festine /fɛs.tin/	—	festinons /fɛs.ti.nɔ̃/	festinez /fɛs.ti.ne/	—
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “festiner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• infester

Latin

Verb

festīner

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of festīnō