Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to guest
Participle: guested
Gerund: guesting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | guest |
| you | guest |
| he;she;it | guests |
| we | guest |
| you | guest |
| they | guest |
Perfect
| I | have guested |
| you | have guested |
| he;she;it | has guested |
| we | have guested |
| you | have guested |
| they | have guested |
Past
| I | guested |
| you | guested |
| he;she;it | guested |
| we | guested |
| you | guested |
| they | guested |
Pluperfect
| I | had guested |
| you | had guested |
| he;she;it | had guested |
| we | had guested |
| you | had guested |
| they | had guested |
Future
| I | will guest |
| you | will guest |
| he;she;it | will guest |
| we | will guest |
| you | will guest |
| they | will guest |
Future Perfect
| I | will have guested |
| you | will have guested |
| he;she;it | will have guested |
| we | will have guested |
| you | will have guested |
| they | will have guested |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | guest |
| you | guest |
| he;she;it | guest |
| we | guest |
| you | guest |
| they | guest |
Perfect
| I | have guested |
| you | have guested |
| he;she;it | have guested |
| we | have guested |
| you | have guested |
| they | have guested |
Imperfect
| I | guested |
| you | guested |
| he;she;it | guested |
| we | guested |
| you | guested |
| they | guested |
Pluperfect
| I | had guested |
| you | had guested |
| he;she;it | had guested |
| we | had guested |
| you | had guested |
| they | had guested |
Conditional
Present
| I | would guest |
| you | would guest |
| he;she;it | would guest |
| we | would guest |
| you | would guest |
| they | would guest |
Perfect
| I | would have guested |
| you | would have guested |
| he;she;it | would have guested |
| we | would have guested |
| you | would have guested |
| they | would have guested |
Imperative
| you | guest |
| we | Let's guest |
| you | guest |
Verbs conjugated like 'guest'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'guest'
guess,
gust,
quest,
aggest,
best,
buist,
burst,
bust,
chest,
crest,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English gest, from Old Norse gestr, which replaced or was merged with Old English ġiest, both from Proto-Germanic *gastiz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis (“stranger, guest, host, someone with whom one has reciprocal duties of hospitality”). Doublet of host, from Latin.
2. Cognates
3. West-Germanic:
4. :* Bavarian Gåst (“guest”)
5. :* Dutch gast (“guest”)
6. :* German Gast (“guest”)
7. :* Luxembourgish Gaascht (“guest”)
8. :* Vilamovian gost (“guest”)
9. :* Yiddish גאַסט (gast, “guest”)
10. North-Germanic:
11. :* Danish gæst (“guest, visitor”)
12. :* Faroese and Icelandic gestur (“guest”)
13. :* Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk gjest (“guest”)
14. :* Swedish gäst (“guest”)
15. East-Germanic:
16. :* Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍃 (gasts, “guest”)
Sample Sentences
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During the '60s, he guested as off-beat characters on TV shows like "The Asphalt Jungle," "Bus Stop," and "The Detectives." [1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 254:]
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Jimmy Fallon’s Trump impression struggled to match up to the real thing when Trump guested on his show. [2016 May 23, David Sims, “Where 'Saturday Night Live' Failed This Season”, in The Atlantic, retrieved 12 Dec 2025:]
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Oldest son Trey, from Will's first marriage, paved the way for his sibling's stardom when he guested on his dad's hit rap album, Big Willie Style, lending some precocious dialogue to the beginning of "Just the Two of Us" and starring in the accompanying music video: [2010 September 9, Kevin Fallon, “Will Smith's 9-Year-Old Daughter Gets Record Deal”, in The Atlantic, retrieved 12 Dec 2025:]
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Two Angels sent Two Heav'nly Scowts the Lord to Sodom sent ; downe , received and guested [1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, translated by Josuah Sylvester, Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC:]