persister
English
Etymology
Noun
persister (plural persisters)
- Something that persists
- (biology) Any organism that survives a period of extreme conditions, such as winter or is tolerant of normal antibiotics
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin persistere.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɛʁ.sis.te/
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Verb
persister
- 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 | – | – | – | ||||
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Descendants
- → Romanian: persista
References
- “persister”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.