insister

English

Etymology

insist +‎ -er

Noun

insister (plural insisters)

  1. One who insists.
    • 1955, Joseph Wood Krutch, The Voice of the Desert:
      one of the most fanatical insisters upon the dogma

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French

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɛ̃.sis.te/
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Verb

insister

  1. to insist, emphasize
    Je ne saurais trop insister sur ce point. ― I can’t stress this point enough.

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 – tu – nous vous –
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:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

Descendants
  • → Romanian: insista

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Verb

insister

  1. imperative of insistere
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