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consister
consister
French
Verb
consister
Conjugation
Conjugation of consister (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | consister | avoir consisté | |||||
| gerund | en consistant | en ayant consisté | |||||
| present participle | consistant /kɔ̃.sis.tɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | consisté /kɔ̃.sis.te/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | consiste /kɔ̃.sist/ |
consistes /kɔ̃.sist/ |
consiste /kɔ̃.sist/ |
consistons /kɔ̃.sis.tɔ̃/ |
consistez /kɔ̃.sis.te/ |
consistent /kɔ̃.sist/ |
| imperfect | consistais /kɔ̃.sis.tɛ/ |
consistais /kɔ̃.sis.tɛ/ |
consistait /kɔ̃.sis.tɛ/ |
consistions /kɔ̃.sis.tjɔ̃/ |
consistiez /kɔ̃.sis.tje/ |
consistaient /kɔ̃.sis.tɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | consistai /kɔ̃.sis.te/ |
consistas /kɔ̃.sis.ta/ |
consista /kɔ̃.sis.ta/ |
consistâmes /kɔ̃.sis.tam/ |
consistâtes /kɔ̃.sis.tat/ |
consistèrent /kɔ̃.sis.tɛʁ/ |
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| future | consisterai /kɔ̃.sis.tə.ʁe/ |
consisteras /kɔ̃.sis.tə.ʁa/ |
consistera /kɔ̃.sis.tə.ʁa/ |
consisterons /kɔ̃.sis.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
consisterez /kɔ̃.sis.tə.ʁe/ |
consisteront /kɔ̃.sis.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | consisterais /kɔ̃.sis.tə.ʁɛ/ |
consisterais /kɔ̃.sis.tə.ʁɛ/ |
consisterait /kɔ̃.sis.tə.ʁɛ/ |
consisterions /kɔ̃.sis.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
consisteriez /kɔ̃.sis.tə.ʁje/ |
consisteraient /kɔ̃.sis.tə.ʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | consiste /kɔ̃.sist/ |
consistes /kɔ̃.sist/ |
consiste /kɔ̃.sist/ |
consistions /kɔ̃.sis.tjɔ̃/ |
consistiez /kɔ̃.sis.tje/ |
consistent /kɔ̃.sist/ |
| imperfect1 |
consistasse /kɔ̃.sis.tas/ |
consistasses /kɔ̃.sis.tas/ |
consistât /kɔ̃.sis.ta/ |
consistassions /kɔ̃.sis.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
consistassiez /kɔ̃.sis.ta.sje/ |
consistassent /kɔ̃.sis.tas/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | consiste /kɔ̃.sist/ |
— | consistons /kɔ̃.sis.tɔ̃/ |
consistez /kɔ̃.sis.te/ |
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