festoyer

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French festeer, festeier, festoyer, from Vulgar Latin *festidiāre. Compare Occitan festejar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɛs.twa.je/

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Verb

festoyer

1. (transitive) to feast, banquet

Conjugation

This verb is part of a large group of -er verbs that conjugate like noyer or ennuyer. These verbs always replace the 'y' with an 'i' before a silent 'e'.

Conjugation of festoyer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	festoyer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	festoyant /fɛs.twa.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		festoyé /fɛs.twa.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	festoie /fɛs.twa/	festoies /fɛs.twa/	festoie /fɛs.twa/	festoyons /fɛs.twa.jɔ̃/	festoyez /fɛs.twa.je/	festoient /fɛs.twa/
	imperfect	festoyais /fɛs.twa.jɛ/	festoyais /fɛs.twa.jɛ/	festoyait /fɛs.twa.jɛ/	festoyions /fɛs.twaj.jɔ̃/	festoyiez /fɛs.twaj.je/	festoyaient /fɛs.twa.jɛ/
	past historic2	festoyai /fɛs.twa.je/	festoyas /fɛs.twa.ja/	festoya /fɛs.twa.ja/	festoyâmes /fɛs.twa.jam/	festoyâtes /fɛs.twa.jat/	festoyèrent /fɛs.twa.jɛʁ/
	future	festoierai /fɛs.twa.ʁe/	festoieras /fɛs.twa.ʁa/	festoiera /fɛs.twa.ʁa/	festoierons /fɛs.twa.ʁɔ̃/	festoierez /fɛs.twa.ʁe/	festoieront /fɛs.twa.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	festoierais /fɛs.twa.ʁɛ/	festoierais /fɛs.twa.ʁɛ/	festoierait /fɛs.twa.ʁɛ/	festoierions /fɛs.twa.ʁjɔ̃/	festoieriez /fɛs.twa.ʁje/	festoieraient /fɛs.twa.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	festoie /fɛs.twa/	festoies /fɛs.twa/	festoie /fɛs.twa/	festoyions /fɛs.twaj.jɔ̃/	festoyiez /fɛs.twaj.je/	festoient /fɛs.twa/
	imperfect2	festoyasse /fɛs.twa.jas/	festoyasses /fɛs.twa.jas/	festoyât /fɛs.twa.ja/	festoyassions /fɛs.twa.ja.sjɔ̃/	festoyassiez /fɛs.twa.ja.sje/	festoyassent /fɛs.twa.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	festoie /fɛs.twa/	—	festoyons /fɛs.twa.jɔ̃/	festoyez /fɛs.twa.je/	—
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

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