persister

English

Etymology

persist +‎ -er

Noun

persister (plural persisters)

1. Something that persists.
2. (biology) Any organism that survives a period of extreme conditions, such as winter.

Anagrams

• respirest, restripes

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French

Etymology

From Latin persistere

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛʁ.sis.te/

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Verb

persister

1. to persist

Conjugation

Conjugation of persister (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	persister
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	persistant /pɛʁ.sis.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		persisté /pɛʁ.sis.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	persiste /pɛʁ.sist/	persistes /pɛʁ.sist/	persiste /pɛʁ.sist/	persistons /pɛʁ.sis.tɔ̃/	persistez /pɛʁ.sis.te/	persistent /pɛʁ.sist/
	imperfect	persistais /pɛʁ.sis.tɛ/	persistais /pɛʁ.sis.tɛ/	persistait /pɛʁ.sis.tɛ/	persistions /pɛʁ.sis.tjɔ̃/	persistiez /pɛʁ.sis.tje/	persistaient /pɛʁ.sis.tɛ/
	past historic2	persistai /pɛʁ.sis.te/	persistas /pɛʁ.sis.ta/	persista /pɛʁ.sis.ta/	persistâmes /pɛʁ.sis.tam/	persistâtes /pɛʁ.sis.tat/	persistèrent /pɛʁ.sis.tɛʁ/
	future	persisterai /pɛʁ.sis.tə.ʁe/	persisteras /pɛʁ.sis.tə.ʁa/	persistera /pɛʁ.sis.tə.ʁa/	persisterons /pɛʁ.sis.tə.ʁɔ̃/	persisterez /pɛʁ.sis.tə.ʁe/	persisteront /pɛʁ.sis.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	persisterais /pɛʁ.sis.tə.ʁɛ/	persisterais /pɛʁ.sis.tə.ʁɛ/	persisterait /pɛʁ.sis.tə.ʁɛ/	persisterions /pɛʁ.sis.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	persisteriez /pɛʁ.sis.tə.ʁje/	persisteraient /pɛʁ.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	persiste /pɛʁ.sist/	persistes /pɛʁ.sist/	persiste /pɛʁ.sist/	persistions /pɛʁ.sis.tjɔ̃/	persistiez /pɛʁ.sis.tje/	persistent /pɛʁ.sist/
	imperfect2	persistasse /pɛʁ.sis.tas/	persistasses /pɛʁ.sis.tas/	persistât /pɛʁ.sis.ta/	persistassions /pɛʁ.sis.ta.sjɔ̃/	persistassiez /pɛʁ.sis.ta.sje/	persistassent /pɛʁ.sis.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	persiste /pɛʁ.sist/	—	persistons /pɛʁ.sis.tɔ̃/	persistez /pɛʁ.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).

Further reading

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