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

1. (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		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
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: 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).

Derived terms

• tarabistouiller

Further reading

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