insister
French, verb/ɛ̃.sis.te/
insister is spelled I-N-S-I-S-T-E-R (8 letters) and appears 5.4 times per million words in written French, the 10,655th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Insister is a French verb meaning “to insist, emphasize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Appuyer sur quelque chose, s’y arrêter avec force”.
What does insister mean in English?
verb
- 1
to insist, emphasize
Je ne saurais trop insister sur ce point.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Appuyer sur quelque chose, s’y arrêter avec force. 2. Faire instance, persévérer à demander, à vouloir une chose.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of insister
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- insistant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- insisté participle past
- insiste first-person indicative present
- insistes indicative present second-person
- insistons first-person indicative plural
- insistez indicative plural present
- insistent indicative plural present
- insistais first-person imperfect indicative
- insistait imperfect indicative singular
- insistions first-person imperfect indicative
- insistiez imperfect indicative plural
- insistaient imperfect indicative plural
- insistai first-person historic indicative
- insistas historic indicative past
- insista historic indicative past
- insistâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce insister?
- /ɛ̃.sis.te/
- \ɛ̃.sis.te\
- [ɛ̃.sis.te]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to insister
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is insister in French?
insister appears 5.4 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).