insister

English

Etymology

From 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

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin īnsistō.

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

Interlingua

Verb

insister

1. to insist

Conjugation

    Conjugation of insister

infinitive		insister
participle		present	perfect
		insistente	insistite
active		simple	perfect
	present	insiste	ha insistite
	past	insisteva	habeva insistite
	future	insistera	habera insistite
	conditional	insisterea	haberea insistite
	imperative	insiste	—
passive		simple	perfect
	present	es insistite	ha essite insistite
	past	esseva insistite	habeva essite insistite
	future	essera insistite	habera essite insistite
	conditional	esserea insistite	haberea essite insistite
	imperative	sia insistite	—

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

insister

1. imperative of insistere