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

Anagrams

• resistin, sinister, sinistre

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

• 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

1. imperative of insistere