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insister
insister
English
Noun
insister (plural insisters)
- One who insists.
- one of the most fanatical insisters upon the dogma — Joseph Wood Krutch
French
Pronunciation
Verb
insister
- to insist
Conjugation
Conjugation of insister (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | insister | avoir insisté | |||||
| gerund | en insistant | en ayant insisté | |||||
| present participle | insistant /ɛ̃.sis.tɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | insisté /ɛ̃.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 | insiste /ɛ̃.sist/ |
insistes /ɛ̃.sist/ |
insiste /ɛ̃.sist/ |
insistons /ɛ̃.sis.tɔ̃/ |
insistez /ɛ̃.sis.te/ |
insistent /ɛ̃.sist/ |
| imperfect | insistais /ɛ̃.sis.tɛ/ |
insistais /ɛ̃.sis.tɛ/ |
insistait /ɛ̃.sis.tɛ/ |
insistions /ɛ̃.sis.tjɔ̃/ |
insistiez /ɛ̃.sis.tje/ |
insistaient /ɛ̃.sis.tɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | insistai /ɛ̃.sis.te/ |
insistas /ɛ̃.sis.ta/ |
insista /ɛ̃.sis.ta/ |
insistâmes /ɛ̃.sis.tam/ |
insistâtes /ɛ̃.sis.tat/ |
insistèrent /ɛ̃.sis.tɛʁ/ |
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| future | insisterai /ɛ̃.sis.tə.ʁe/ |
insisteras /ɛ̃.sis.tə.ʁa/ |
insistera /ɛ̃.sis.tə.ʁa/ |
insisterons /ɛ̃.sis.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
insisterez /ɛ̃.sis.tə.ʁe/ |
insisteront /ɛ̃.sis.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | insisterais /ɛ̃.sis.tə.ʁɛ/ |
insisterais /ɛ̃.sis.tə.ʁɛ/ |
insisterait /ɛ̃.sis.tə.ʁɛ/ |
insisterions /ɛ̃.sis.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
insisteriez /ɛ̃.sis.tə.ʁje/ |
insisteraient /ɛ̃.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 | insiste /ɛ̃.sist/ |
insistes /ɛ̃.sist/ |
insiste /ɛ̃.sist/ |
insistions /ɛ̃.sis.tjɔ̃/ |
insistiez /ɛ̃.sis.tje/ |
insistent /ɛ̃.sist/ |
| imperfect1 |
insistasse /ɛ̃.sis.tas/ |
insistasses /ɛ̃.sis.tas/ |
insistât /ɛ̃.sis.ta/ |
insistassions /ɛ̃.sis.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
insistassiez /ɛ̃.sis.ta.sje/ |
insistassent /ɛ̃.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 | – | |
| — | insiste /ɛ̃.sist/ |
— | insistons /ɛ̃.sis.tɔ̃/ |
insistez /ɛ̃.sis.te/ |
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