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persister
persister
English
Noun
persister (plural persisters)
- Something that persists
- (biology) Any organism that survives a period of extreme conditions (such as winter)
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
Verb
persister
- to persist
Conjugation
Conjugation of persister (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | persister | avoir persisté | |||||
| gerund | en persistant | en ayant persisté | |||||
| present participle | persistant /pɛʁ.sis.tɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | persisté /pɛʁ.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 | persiste /pɛʁ.sist/ |
persistes /pɛʁ.sist/ |
persiste /pɛʁ.sist/ |
persistons /pɛʁ.sis.tɔ̃/ |
persistez /pɛʁ.sis.te/ |
persistent /pɛʁ.sist/ |
| imperfect | persistais /pɛʁ.sis.tɛ/ |
persistais /pɛʁ.sis.tɛ/ |
persistait /pɛʁ.sis.tɛ/ |
persistions /pɛʁ.sis.tjɔ̃/ |
persistiez /pɛʁ.sis.tje/ |
persistaient /pɛʁ.sis.tɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | persistai /pɛʁ.sis.te/ |
persistas /pɛʁ.sis.ta/ |
persista /pɛʁ.sis.ta/ |
persistâmes /pɛʁ.sis.tam/ |
persistâtes /pɛʁ.sis.tat/ |
persistèrent /pɛʁ.sis.tɛʁ/ |
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| future | persisterai /pɛʁ.sis.tə.ʁe/ |
persisteras /pɛʁ.sis.tə.ʁa/ |
persistera /pɛʁ.sis.tə.ʁa/ |
persisterons /pɛʁ.sis.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
persisterez /pɛʁ.sis.tə.ʁe/ |
persisteront /pɛʁ.sis.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | persisterais /pɛʁ.sis.tə.ʁɛ/ |
persisterais /pɛʁ.sis.tə.ʁɛ/ |
persisterait /pɛʁ.sis.tə.ʁɛ/ |
persisterions /pɛʁ.sis.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
persisteriez /pɛʁ.sis.tə.ʁje/ |
persisteraient /pɛʁ.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 | persiste /pɛʁ.sist/ |
persistes /pɛʁ.sist/ |
persiste /pɛʁ.sist/ |
persistions /pɛʁ.sis.tjɔ̃/ |
persistiez /pɛʁ.sis.tje/ |
persistent /pɛʁ.sist/ |
| imperfect1 |
persistasse /pɛʁ.sis.tas/ |
persistasses /pɛʁ.sis.tas/ |
persistât /pɛʁ.sis.ta/ |
persistassions /pɛʁ.sis.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
persistassiez /pɛʁ.sis.ta.sje/ |
persistassent /pɛʁ.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 | – | |
| — | persiste /pɛʁ.sist/ |
— | persistons /pɛʁ.sis.tɔ̃/ |
persistez /pɛʁ.sis.te/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||