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

Interlingua

Verb

consister

1. to consist

Conjugation

    Conjugation of consister

infinitive		consister
participle		present	perfect
		consistente	consistite
active		simple	perfect
	present	consiste	ha consistite
	past	consisteva	habeva consistite
	future	consistera	habera consistite
	conditional	consisterea	haberea consistite
	imperative	consiste	—
passive		simple	perfect
	present	es consistite	ha essite consistite
	past	esseva consistite	habeva essite consistite
	future	essera consistite	habera essite consistite
	conditional	esserea consistite	haberea essite consistite
	imperative	sia consistite	—