flibuster

French

Etymology

From flibuste +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fli.bys.te/

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Verb

flibuster

1. to buccaneer
2. to steal; to filch

Conjugation

Conjugation of flibuster (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	flibuster
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	flibustant /fli.bys.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		flibusté /fli.bys.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	flibuste /fli.byst/	flibustes /fli.byst/	flibuste /fli.byst/	flibustons /fli.bys.tɔ̃/	flibustez /fli.bys.te/	flibustent /fli.byst/
	imperfect	flibustais /fli.bys.tɛ/	flibustais /fli.bys.tɛ/	flibustait /fli.bys.tɛ/	flibustions /fli.bys.tjɔ̃/	flibustiez /fli.bys.tje/	flibustaient /fli.bys.tɛ/
	past historic2	flibustai /fli.bys.te/	flibustas /fli.bys.ta/	flibusta /fli.bys.ta/	flibustâmes /fli.bys.tam/	flibustâtes /fli.bys.tat/	flibustèrent /fli.bys.tɛʁ/
	future	flibusterai /fli.bys.tə.ʁe/	flibusteras /fli.bys.tə.ʁa/	flibustera /fli.bys.tə.ʁa/	flibusterons /fli.bys.tə.ʁɔ̃/	flibusterez /fli.bys.tə.ʁe/	flibusteront /fli.bys.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	flibusterais /fli.bys.tə.ʁɛ/	flibusterais /fli.bys.tə.ʁɛ/	flibusterait /fli.bys.tə.ʁɛ/	flibusterions /fli.bys.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	flibusteriez /fli.bys.tə.ʁje/	flibusteraient /fli.bys.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	flibuste /fli.byst/	flibustes /fli.byst/	flibuste /fli.byst/	flibustions /fli.bys.tjɔ̃/	flibustiez /fli.bys.tje/	flibustent /fli.byst/
	imperfect2	flibustasse /fli.bys.tas/	flibustasses /fli.bys.tas/	flibustât /fli.bys.ta/	flibustassions /fli.bys.ta.sjɔ̃/	flibustassiez /fli.bys.ta.sje/	flibustassent /fli.bys.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	flibuste /fli.byst/	—	flibustons /fli.bys.tɔ̃/	flibustez /fli.bys.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

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