siester

French

Etymology

sieste +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sjɛs.te/

Verb

siester

1. (intransitive, rare) to nap

   Synonym: faire la sieste

   Hypernym: dormir

Conjugation

Conjugation of siester (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	siester
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	siestant /sjɛs.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		siesté /sjɛs.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	sieste /sjɛst/	siestes /sjɛst/	sieste /sjɛst/	siestons /sjɛs.tɔ̃/	siestez /sjɛs.te/	siestent /sjɛst/
	imperfect	siestais /sjɛs.tɛ/	siestais /sjɛs.tɛ/	siestait /sjɛs.tɛ/	siestions /sjɛs.tjɔ̃/	siestiez /sjɛs.tje/	siestaient /sjɛs.tɛ/
	past historic2	siestai /sjɛs.te/	siestas /sjɛs.ta/	siesta /sjɛs.ta/	siestâmes /sjɛs.tam/	siestâtes /sjɛs.tat/	siestèrent /sjɛs.tɛʁ/
	future	siesterai /sjɛs.tə.ʁe/	siesteras /sjɛs.tə.ʁa/	siestera /sjɛs.tə.ʁa/	siesterons /sjɛs.tə.ʁɔ̃/	siesterez /sjɛs.tə.ʁe/	siesteront /sjɛs.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	siesterais /sjɛs.tə.ʁɛ/	siesterais /sjɛs.tə.ʁɛ/	siesterait /sjɛs.tə.ʁɛ/	siesterions /sjɛs.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	siesteriez /sjɛs.tə.ʁje/	siesteraient /sjɛs.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	sieste /sjɛst/	siestes /sjɛst/	sieste /sjɛst/	siestions /sjɛs.tjɔ̃/	siestiez /sjɛs.tje/	siestent /sjɛst/
	imperfect2	siestasse /sjɛs.tas/	siestasses /sjɛs.tas/	siestât /sjɛs.ta/	siestassions /sjɛs.ta.sjɔ̃/	siestassiez /sjɛs.ta.sje/	siestassent /sjɛs.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	sieste /sjɛst/	—	siestons /sjɛs.tɔ̃/	siestez /sjɛs.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).

Derived terms

• siesteur

Related terms

• sieste

Further reading

• “siester” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
• “siester” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
• “siester”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.