tarabuster
French
Etymology
From Old French tarrabaster, tarabustis (“uproar, commotion, tumult”), related to tabuster (“to be noisy”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ta.ʁa.bys.te/
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Verb
tarabuster
- (transitive) to bother (someone)
Conjugation
Conjugation of tarabuster (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | tarabuster | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | tarabustant /ta.ʁa.bys.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | tarabusté /ta.ʁa.bys.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | tarabuste /ta.ʁa.byst/ |
tarabustes /ta.ʁa.byst/ |
tarabuste /ta.ʁa.byst/ |
tarabustons /ta.ʁa.bys.tɔ̃/ |
tarabustez /ta.ʁa.bys.te/ |
tarabustent /ta.ʁa.byst/ |
| imperfect | tarabustais /ta.ʁa.bys.tɛ/ |
tarabustais /ta.ʁa.bys.tɛ/ |
tarabustait /ta.ʁa.bys.tɛ/ |
tarabustions /ta.ʁa.bys.tjɔ̃/ |
tarabustiez /ta.ʁa.bys.tje/ |
tarabustaient /ta.ʁa.bys.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | tarabustai /ta.ʁa.bys.te/ |
tarabustas /ta.ʁa.bys.ta/ |
tarabusta /ta.ʁa.bys.ta/ |
tarabustâmes /ta.ʁa.bys.tam/ |
tarabustâtes /ta.ʁa.bys.tat/ |
tarabustèrent /ta.ʁa.bys.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | tarabusterai /ta.ʁa.bys.tə.ʁe/ |
tarabusteras /ta.ʁa.bys.tə.ʁa/ |
tarabustera /ta.ʁa.bys.tə.ʁa/ |
tarabusterons /ta.ʁa.bys.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
tarabusterez /ta.ʁa.bys.tə.ʁe/ |
tarabusteront /ta.ʁa.bys.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | tarabusterais /ta.ʁa.bys.tə.ʁɛ/ |
tarabusterais /ta.ʁa.bys.tə.ʁɛ/ |
tarabusterait /ta.ʁa.bys.tə.ʁɛ/ |
tarabusterions /ta.ʁa.bys.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
tarabusteriez /ta.ʁa.bys.tə.ʁje/ |
tarabusteraient /ta.ʁa.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 | tarabuste /ta.ʁa.byst/ |
tarabustes /ta.ʁa.byst/ |
tarabuste /ta.ʁa.byst/ |
tarabustions /ta.ʁa.bys.tjɔ̃/ |
tarabustiez /ta.ʁa.bys.tje/ |
tarabustent /ta.ʁa.byst/ |
| imperfect2 | tarabustasse /ta.ʁa.bys.tas/ |
tarabustasses /ta.ʁa.bys.tas/ |
tarabustât /ta.ʁa.bys.ta/ |
tarabustassions /ta.ʁa.bys.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
tarabustassiez /ta.ʁa.bys.ta.sje/ |
tarabustassent /ta.ʁa.bys.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | tarabuste /ta.ʁa.byst/ |
— | tarabustons /ta.ʁa.bys.tɔ̃/ |
tarabustez /ta.ʁa.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “tarabuster”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.