persister
French, verb/pɛʁ.sis.te/
persister is spelled P-E-R-S-I-S-T-E-R (9 letters) and appears 1.0 times per million words in written French, the 30,948th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Persister is a French verb meaning “to persist” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Demeurer ferme et arrêté dans son sentiment, dans ce qu’on a dit, dans ce qu’on a résolu, en dépit d’une…”.
What does persister mean in English?
verb
- 1
to persist
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Demeurer ferme et arrêté dans son sentiment, dans ce qu’on a dit, dans ce qu’on a résolu, en dépit d’une résistance. 2. Durer, continuer. 3. Enregistrer les changements effectués sur un objet dans la base de donnée.
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 persister
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- persistant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- persisté participle past
- persiste first-person indicative present
- persistes indicative present second-person
- persistons first-person indicative plural
- persistez indicative plural present
- persistent indicative plural present
- persistais first-person imperfect indicative
- persistait imperfect indicative singular
- persistions first-person imperfect indicative
- persistiez imperfect indicative plural
- persistaient imperfect indicative plural
- persistai first-person historic indicative
- persistas historic indicative past
- persista historic indicative past
- persistâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce persister?
- /pɛʁ.sis.te/
- \pɛʁ.sis.te\
- [pɛʁ.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 persister
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is persister in French?
persister appears 1.0 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).