pister

French

Etymology

From piste +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pis.te/

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Verb

pister

1. (transitive) to track (an animal)
2. (transitive) to track (a person)

Conjugation

Conjugation of pister (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	pister
	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		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
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: 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

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

Anagrams

• esprit, pétris, prîtes, tripes

Latin

Verb

pister

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of pistō