pister
French
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- (transitive) to track (an animal)
- (transitive) to track (a person)
Conjugation
editConjugation of pister (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | pister | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | pistant /pis.tɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | pisté /pis.te/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | piste /pist/ |
pistes /pist/ |
piste /pist/ |
pistons /pis.tɔ̃/ |
pistez /pis.te/ |
pistent /pist/ |
imperfect | pistais /pis.tɛ/ |
pistais /pis.tɛ/ |
pistait /pis.tɛ/ |
pistions /pis.tjɔ̃/ |
pistiez /pis.tje/ |
pistaient /pis.tɛ/ | |
past historic2 | pistai /pis.te/ |
pistas /pis.ta/ |
pista /pis.ta/ |
pistâmes /pis.tam/ |
pistâtes /pis.tat/ |
pistèrent /pis.tɛʁ/ | |
future | pisterai /pis.tə.ʁe/ |
pisteras /pis.tə.ʁa/ |
pistera /pis.tə.ʁa/ |
pisterons /pis.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
pisterez /pis.tə.ʁe/ |
pisteront /pis.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | pisterais /pis.tə.ʁɛ/ |
pisterais /pis.tə.ʁɛ/ |
pisterait /pis.tə.ʁɛ/ |
pisterions /pis.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
pisteriez /pis.tə.ʁje/ |
pisteraient /pis.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 | piste /pist/ |
pistes /pist/ |
piste /pist/ |
pistions /pis.tjɔ̃/ |
pistiez /pis.tje/ |
pistent /pist/ |
imperfect2 | pistasse /pis.tas/ |
pistasses /pis.tas/ |
pistât /pis.ta/ |
pistassions /pis.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
pistassiez /pis.ta.sje/ |
pistassent /pis.tas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | piste /pist/ |
— | pistons /pis.tɔ̃/ |
pistez /pis.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
edit- “pister”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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