consister
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
consister
- (intransitive, ~ en) to consist (of/in)
- (~ à) to entail, to involve
Conjugation edit
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 | – | – | – | ||||
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Descendants edit
- → Romanian: consista
Further reading edit
- “consister”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.