consister
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ̃.sis.te/
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Verb
consister
- (intransitive, ~ en) to consist (of/in)
- (~ à) to entail, to involve
Conjugation
Conjugation of consister (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | consister | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | consistant /kɔ̃.sis.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | consisté /kɔ̃.sis.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (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/ | |
| past historic2 | consistai /kɔ̃.sis.te/ | consistas /kɔ̃.sis.ta/ | consista /kɔ̃.sis.ta/ | consistâmes /kɔ̃.sis.tam/ | consistâtes /kɔ̃.sis.tat/ | consistèrent /kɔ̃.sis.tɛʁ/ | |
| 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/ | |
| 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/ | |
| (compound tenses) | present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | consiste /kɔ̃.sist/ | consistes /kɔ̃.sist/ | consiste /kɔ̃.sist/ | consistions /kɔ̃.sis.tjɔ̃/ | consistiez /kɔ̃.sis.tje/ | consistent /kɔ̃.sist/ |
| imperfect2 | 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/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | consiste /kɔ̃.sist/ | — | consistons /kɔ̃.sis.tɔ̃/ | consistez /kɔ̃.sis.te/ | — | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Descendants
- → Romanian: consista
Further reading
- “consister”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- croissent