faster

See also: fäster

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfæstɚ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈfɑːstə/

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• Rhymes: -æstə(ɹ), -ɑːstə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: fast‧er

Etymology 1

fast (“quick; quickly”) +‎ -er.

Adjective

faster

1. comparative form of fast: more fast

Adverb

faster

1. comparative form of fast: more fast

Etymology 2

fast (“refrain from eating”) +‎ -er.

Noun

faster (plural fasters)

1. One who fasts, or voluntarily refrains from eating.

Translations

one who fasts

• Arabic: بسرعة
• Basque: baraugile
• Breton: yuner
• Catalan: dejunador m, dejunadora f
• French: jeûneur (fr) m, jeûneuse (fr) f
• Italian: digiunatore m, digiunatrice f
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• Latin: iēiūnātor m, iēiūnātrīx f
• Portuguese: jejuador m, jejuadora f
• Romanian: ajunător m, ajunătoare f, postitor m, postitoare f
• Spanish: ayunador (es) m, ayunadora (es) f
• Swahili: mfunga
• Welsh: ymprydiwr

Anagrams

• afters, farest, freats, strafe

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Danish

Etymology

Old Norse fǫðursystir, equivalent to fader (“father”) +‎ søster (“sister”).

Noun

faster c (singular definite fasteren, plural indefinite fastre)

1. paternal aunt; one's father's sister

Declension

Declension of faster

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	faster	fasteren	fastre	fastrene
genitive	fasters	fasterens	fastres	fastrenes

Hypernyms

• tante

References

• “faster” in Den Danske Ordbog

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Elfdalian

Etymology

From Old Norse fǫðursystir. Cognate with Swedish faster.

Noun

faster f

1. paternal aunt

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

faster m or f

1. indefinite plural of faste

Verb

faster

1. present of faste

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

faster f

1. indefinite plural of faste

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Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse fastr, from Proto-Germanic *fastuz.

Adjective

faster

1. fast, firm

Declension

Declension of faster (strong)

singular	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	faster	fast	fast
accusative	fastan	fasta	fast
dative	fastum fastom	fastri fastre	fastu fasto
genitive	fasts	fastrar	fasts
plural	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	fastir faster	fastar	fast
accusative	fasta	fastar	fast
dative	fastum fastom	fastum fastom	fastum fastom
genitive	fastra fasta	fastra fasta	fastra fasta

Declension of faster (weak)

singular	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	fasti faste	fasta	fasta
accusative	fasta	fastu fasto	fasta
dative	fasta	fastu fasto	fasta
genitive	fasta	fastu fasto	fasta
plural	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	fastu fasto	fastu fasto	fastu fasto
accusative	fastu fasto	fastu fasto	fastu fasto
dative	fastu fasto	fastu fasto	fastu fasto
genitive	fastu fasto	fastu fasto	fastu fasto

Descendants

• Swedish: fast

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Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish faþur systir, faþersyster, from Old Norse fǫðursystir.

Pronunciation

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Noun

faster c

1. paternal aunt

Declension

Declension of faster
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	faster	fastern	fastrar	fastrarna
Genitive	fasters	fasterns	fastrars	fastrarnas

See also

• moster

Anagrams

• festar, safter