absenter

English

Pronunciation

• (General American, noun) IPA^(key): /æbˈsɛn.tɚ/
• (General American, adjective) IPA^(key): /ˈæb.sən.tɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

absent +‎ -er

Noun

absenter (plural absenters)

1. One who stays away; one who absents herself or himself. [First attested in the late 16^th century.]
   • 1621, Thomas Taylor, The Parable of the Sower and the Seed‎^[1], London: John Bartlet, page 259:

     […] if many of them that vse the meanes of saluation, shall not bee saued, where shall wilfull Recusants, obstinate absenters, and carelesse contemners of the Word, appeare?

   • 1966, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Pentland Rising: A Page of History, Edinburgh: Andrew Elliot, Chapter 1, p. 4,^[2]

     It was little to be wondered at, from this account that the country-folk refused to go to the parish church, and chose rather to listen to outed ministers in the fields. But this was not to be allowed, and their persecutors at last fell on the method of calling a roll of the parishioners’ names every Sabbath, and marking a fine of twenty shillings Scots to the name of each absenter.

Etymology 2

Adjective

absenter

1. (rare) comparative form of absent: more absent

Related terms

• absentee

Anagrams

• base rent

French

Etymology

From absent +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ap.sɑ̃.te/

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Verb

absenter

1. (reflexive) to leave; to absent oneself

Conjugation

Conjugation of s'absenter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	s'absenter
	compound	s'être + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	s’absentant /sap.sɑ̃.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant or étant + past participle
past participle		absenté /ap.sɑ̃.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	m’absente /map.sɑ̃t/	t’absentes /tap.sɑ̃t/	s’absente /sap.sɑ̃t/	nous absentons /nu.z‿ap.sɑ̃.tɔ̃/	vous absentez /vu.z‿ap.sɑ̃.te/	s’absentent /sap.sɑ̃t/
	imperfect	m’absentais /map.sɑ̃.tɛ/	t’absentais /tap.sɑ̃.tɛ/	s’absentait /sap.sɑ̃.tɛ/	nous absentions /nu.z‿ap.sɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	vous absentiez /vu.z‿ap.sɑ̃.tje/	s’absentaient /sap.sɑ̃.tɛ/
	past historic2	m’absentai /map.sɑ̃.te/	t’absentas /tap.sɑ̃.ta/	s’absenta /sap.sɑ̃.ta/	nous absentâmes /nu.z‿ap.sɑ̃.tam/	vous absentâtes /vu.z‿ap.sɑ̃.tat/	s’absentèrent /sap.sɑ̃.tɛʁ/
	future	m’absenterai /map.sɑ̃.tʁe/	t’absenteras /tap.sɑ̃.tʁa/	s’absentera /sap.sɑ̃.tʁa/	nous absenterons /nu.z‿ap.sɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/	vous absenterez /vu.z‿ap.sɑ̃.tʁe/	s’absenteront /sap.sɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	m’absenterais /map.sɑ̃.tʁɛ/	t’absenterais /tap.sɑ̃.tʁɛ/	s’absenterait /sap.sɑ̃.tʁɛ/	nous absenterions /nu.z‿ap.sɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	vous absenteriez /vu.z‿ap.sɑ̃.tə.ʁje/	s’absenteraient /sap.sɑ̃.tʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of s'être + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of s'être + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of s'être + past participle
	future perfect	future of s'être + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of s'être + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	m’absente /map.sɑ̃t/	t’absentes /tap.sɑ̃t/	s’absente /sap.sɑ̃t/	nous absentions /nu.z‿ap.sɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	vous absentiez /vu.z‿ap.sɑ̃.tje/	s’absentent /sap.sɑ̃t/
	imperfect2	m’absentasse /map.sɑ̃.tas/	t’absentasses /tap.sɑ̃.tas/	s’absentât /sap.sɑ̃.ta/	nous absentassions /nu.z‿ap.sɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/	vous absentassiez /vu.z‿ap.sɑ̃.ta.sje/	s’absentassent /sap.sɑ̃.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of s'être + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of s'être + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	absente-toi /ap.sɑ̃t.twa/	—	absentons-nous /ap.sɑ̃.tɔ̃.nu/	absentez-vous /ap.sɑ̃.te.vu/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of s'être + past participle	—	simple imperative of s'être + past participle	simple imperative of s'être + 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).

Descendants

• → German: absentieren
• → Norwegian Bokmål: absentere

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• basèrent, bernâtes, ébrasent

German

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Adjective

absenter

1. inflection of absent:
   1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
   2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
   3. strong genitive plural

Latin

Verb

absenter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of absentō

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /absənˈteːr/, /apsənˈteːr/

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• Rhymes: -eːr
• Hyphenation: ab‧sen‧ter

Verb

absenter

1. imperative of absentere