insister
English
Etymology
insist + -er
Noun
insister (plural insisters)
- One who insists.
- 1955, Joseph Wood Krutch, The Voice of the Desert
- one of the most fanatical insisters upon the dogma
- 1955, Joseph Wood Krutch, The Voice of the Desert
Anagrams
- resistin, sinister, sinistre
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛ̃.sis.te/
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Verb
insister
- to insist
- Je ne saurais trop insister sur ce point. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
Conjugation
Conjugation of insister (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | insister | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | insistant /ɛ̃.sis.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | insisté /ɛ̃.sis.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (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/ | |
| past historic2 | insistai /ɛ̃.sis.te/ | insistas /ɛ̃.sis.ta/ | insista /ɛ̃.sis.ta/ | insistâmes /ɛ̃.sis.tam/ | insistâtes /ɛ̃.sis.tat/ | insistèrent /ɛ̃.sis.tɛʁ/ | |
| 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/ | |
| 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/ | |
| (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 | insiste /ɛ̃.sist/ | insistes /ɛ̃.sist/ | insiste /ɛ̃.sist/ | insistions /ɛ̃.sis.tjɔ̃/ | insistiez /ɛ̃.sis.tje/ | insistent /ɛ̃.sist/ |
| imperfect2 | 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/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | insiste /ɛ̃.sist/ | — | insistons /ɛ̃.sis.tɔ̃/ | insistez /ɛ̃.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). | |||||||
Derived terms
- insistance
- insistant
Descendants
- → Romanian: insista
Further reading
- “insister”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- sinistre, sinistré, tisserin
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
insister
- imperative of insistere