absenter

English

Pronunciation
  • (General American, noun) IPA(key): /æbˈsɛn.tɚ/
  • (General American, adjective) IPA(key): /ˈæb.sən.tɚ/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

absent +‎ -er

Noun

absenter (plural absenters)

  1. One who stays away; one who absents herself or himself. [First attested in the late 16th century.][1]
    • 1621, Thomas Taylor, The Parable of the Sower and the Seed‎, London: John Bartlet, page 259:
      […] if many of them that vse the meanes of saluation, shall not bee saued, where shall wilfull Recusants, obstinate absenters, and carelesse contemners of the Word, appeare?
    • 1966, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Pentland Rising: A Page of History, Edinburgh: Andrew Elliot, Chapter 1, p. 4,
      It was little to be wondered at, from this account that the country-folk refused to go to the parish church, and chose rather to listen to outed ministers in the fields. But this was not to be allowed, and their persecutors at last fell on the method of calling a roll of the parishioners’ names every Sabbath, and marking a fine of twenty shillings Scots to the name of each absenter.

Adjective

absenter

  1. (rare) comparative form of absent: more absent

References
  1. Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “absenter”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 8.

Anagrams

French

Etymology

From absent +‎ -er.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ap.sɑ̃.te/
  • Audio(file)

Verb

absenter

  1. (reflexive) to leave; to absent oneself

Conjugation
Conjugation of s'absenter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple s'absenter
compound s'être + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple s’absentant
/sap.sɑ̃.tɑ̃/
compound ayant or étant + past participle
past participle absenté
/ap.sɑ̃.te/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present m’absente
/map.sɑ̃t/		 t’absentes
/tap.sɑ̃t/		 s’absente
/sap.sɑ̃t/		 nous absentons
/nu.z‿ap.sɑ̃.tɔ̃/		 vous absentez
/vu.z‿ap.sɑ̃.te/		 s’absentent
/sap.sɑ̃t/
imperfect m’absentais
/map.sɑ̃.tɛ/		 t’absentais
/tap.sɑ̃.tɛ/		 s’absentait
/sap.sɑ̃.tɛ/		 nous absentions
/nu.z‿ap.sɑ̃.tjɔ̃/		 vous absentiez
/vu.z‿ap.sɑ̃.tje/		 s’absentaient
/sap.sɑ̃.tɛ/
past historic2 m’absentai
/map.sɑ̃.te/		 t’absentas
/tap.sɑ̃.ta/		 s’absenta
/sap.sɑ̃.ta/		 nous absentâmes
/nu.z‿ap.sɑ̃.tam/		 vous absentâtes
/vu.z‿ap.sɑ̃.tat/		 s’absentèrent
/sap.sɑ̃.tɛʁ/
future m’absenterai
/map.sɑ̃.tʁe/		 t’absenteras
/tap.sɑ̃.tʁa/		 s’absentera
/sap.sɑ̃.tʁa/		 nous absenterons
/nu.z‿ap.sɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/		 vous absenterez
/vu.z‿ap.sɑ̃.tʁe/		 s’absenteront
/sap.sɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/
conditional m’absenterais
/map.sɑ̃.tʁɛ/		 t’absenterais
/tap.sɑ̃.tʁɛ/		 s’absenterait
/sap.sɑ̃.tʁɛ/		 nous absenterions
/nu.z‿ap.sɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/		 vous absenteriez
/vu.z‿ap.sɑ̃.tə.ʁje/		 s’absenteraient
/sap.sɑ̃.tʁɛ/
(compound
tenses)		 present perfect present indicative of s'être + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of s'être + past participle
past anterior2 past historic of s'être + past participle
future perfect future of s'être + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of s'être + past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple
tenses)		 present m’absente
/map.sɑ̃t/		 t’absentes
/tap.sɑ̃t/		 s’absente
/sap.sɑ̃t/		 nous absentions
/nu.z‿ap.sɑ̃.tjɔ̃/		 vous absentiez
/vu.z‿ap.sɑ̃.tje/		 s’absentent
/sap.sɑ̃t/
imperfect2 m’absentasse
/map.sɑ̃.tas/		 t’absentasses
/tap.sɑ̃.tas/		 s’absentât
/sap.sɑ̃.ta/		 nous absentassions
/nu.z‿ap.sɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/		 vous absentassiez
/vu.z‿ap.sɑ̃.ta.sje/		 s’absentassent
/sap.sɑ̃.tas/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of s'être + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of s'être + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — absente-toi
/ap.sɑ̃t.twa/		 — absentons-nous
/ap.sɑ̃.tɔ̃.nu/		 absentez-vous
/ap.sɑ̃.te.vu/		 —
compound — simple imperative of s'être + past participle — simple imperative of s'être + past participle simple imperative of s'être + 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).

Descendants
  • → German: absentieren
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: absentere

Further reading

Anagrams

German

Pronunciation
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Adjective

absenter

  1. inflection of absent:
    1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
    2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
    3. strong genitive plural

Latin

Verb

absenter

  1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of absentō

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /absənˈteːr/, /apsənˈteːr/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -eːr
  • Hyphenation: ab‧sen‧ter

Verb

absenter

  1. imperative of absentere
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