Hungarian

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Etymology

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fos +‎ -t

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈfoʃt]
  • Hyphenation: fost

Noun

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fost

  1. accusative singular of fos

Maltese

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Root
w-s-t
4 terms

Etymology

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From f’ +‎ wast (now obsolete), from Arabic فِي وَسْط (fī wasṭ, in middle [of]).

Pronunciation

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Preposition

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fost

  1. among
    • 2022, Alfred Massa, Il-Ħarba, Horizons, →ISBN, page 6:
      Sadattant, mal-medda tas-snin dan l-antagoniżmu anti-Semitiku baqa’ dejjem jiżdied, anki fost il-Ġermaniżi.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Inflection

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Inflected forms of fost
Personal-pronoun-
including forms
singular plural
m f
1st person fosti fostna
2nd person fostok fostkom
3rd person fostu fostha fosthom

Romanian

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Etymology

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Past participle of fi. Probably formed from fuse, the simple perfect tense, as with *post (pus) from puse for the verb pune.

Pronunciation

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Participle

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fost (past participle of fi)

  1. past participle of fi; been
    Am fost la București.
    I have been to Bucharest.

Adjective

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fost m or n (feminine singular fostă, masculine plural foști, feminine and neuter plural foste)

  1. (of someone who had a feature, degree, function, name, etc. which they no longer possess) former

Declension

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Noun

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fost m (plural foști, feminine equivalent fostă)

  1. ex-boyfriend

Usage notes

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When used as a noun, fost is generally used in the definite form fostul.

Declension

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Vilamovian

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Proper noun

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fost f

  1. Lent