infester

English

Etymology

From infest +‎ -er.

Noun

infester (plural infesters)

1. something that infests.

Anagrams

• feinters, ferniest, reinfest

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.fɛs.te/

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Verb

infester

1. to infest

Conjugation

Conjugation of infester (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	infester
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	infestant /ɛ̃.fɛs.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		infesté /ɛ̃.fɛs.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	infeste /ɛ̃.fɛst/	infestes /ɛ̃.fɛst/	infeste /ɛ̃.fɛst/	infestons /ɛ̃.fɛs.tɔ̃/	infestez /ɛ̃.fɛs.te/	infestent /ɛ̃.fɛst/
	imperfect	infestais /ɛ̃.fɛs.tɛ/	infestais /ɛ̃.fɛs.tɛ/	infestait /ɛ̃.fɛs.tɛ/	infestions /ɛ̃.fɛs.tjɔ̃/	infestiez /ɛ̃.fɛs.tje/	infestaient /ɛ̃.fɛs.tɛ/
	past historic2	infestai /ɛ̃.fɛs.te/	infestas /ɛ̃.fɛs.ta/	infesta /ɛ̃.fɛs.ta/	infestâmes /ɛ̃.fɛs.tam/	infestâtes /ɛ̃.fɛs.tat/	infestèrent /ɛ̃.fɛs.tɛʁ/
	future	infesterai /ɛ̃.fɛs.tə.ʁe/	infesteras /ɛ̃.fɛs.tə.ʁa/	infestera /ɛ̃.fɛs.tə.ʁa/	infesterons /ɛ̃.fɛs.tə.ʁɔ̃/	infesterez /ɛ̃.fɛs.tə.ʁe/	infesteront /ɛ̃.fɛs.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	infesterais /ɛ̃.fɛs.tə.ʁɛ/	infesterais /ɛ̃.fɛs.tə.ʁɛ/	infesterait /ɛ̃.fɛs.tə.ʁɛ/	infesterions /ɛ̃.fɛs.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	infesteriez /ɛ̃.fɛs.tə.ʁje/	infesteraient /ɛ̃.fɛs.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	infeste /ɛ̃.fɛst/	infestes /ɛ̃.fɛst/	infeste /ɛ̃.fɛst/	infestions /ɛ̃.fɛs.tjɔ̃/	infestiez /ɛ̃.fɛs.tje/	infestent /ɛ̃.fɛst/
	imperfect2	infestasse /ɛ̃.fɛs.tas/	infestasses /ɛ̃.fɛs.tas/	infestât /ɛ̃.fɛs.ta/	infestassions /ɛ̃.fɛs.ta.sjɔ̃/	infestassiez /ɛ̃.fɛs.ta.sje/	infestassent /ɛ̃.fɛs.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	infeste /ɛ̃.fɛst/	—	infestons /ɛ̃.fɛs.tɔ̃/	infestez /ɛ̃.fɛs.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: 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).

Related terms

• infestation

Descendants

• → Romanian: infesta

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• festiner

Latin

Verb

īnfēster

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of īnfēstō