consister

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.sis.te/

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Verb

consister

1. (intransitive, ~ en) to consist (of/in)
2. (~ 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		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
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: 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).

Descendants

• → Romanian: consista

Further reading

• “consister”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• croissent