subsister
French, verb/syb.zis.te/
subsister is spelled S-U-B-S-I-S-T-E-R (9 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written French, the 28,870th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Subsister is a French verb meaning “to subsist, live on, go on, keep going” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Exister encore, continuer d’être ; dans ce sens, ne peut se dire que des choses”.
What does subsister mean in English?
verb
- 1
to subsist, live on, go on, keep going
- 2
to stay, remain
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Exister encore, continuer d’être ; dans ce sens, ne peut se dire que des choses. 2. Demeurer en force et en vigueur ; se dit particulièrement des lois, des traités qu’on invoque, des propositions qu’on avance, etc. 3. Vivre et s’entretenir.
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 subsister
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- subsistant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- subsisté participle past
- subsiste first-person indicative present
- subsistes indicative present second-person
- subsistons first-person indicative plural
- subsistez indicative plural present
- subsistent indicative plural present
- subsistais first-person imperfect indicative
- subsistait imperfect indicative singular
- subsistions first-person imperfect indicative
- subsistiez imperfect indicative plural
- subsistaient imperfect indicative plural
- subsistai first-person historic indicative
- subsistas historic indicative past
- subsista historic indicative past
- subsistâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce subsister?
- /syb.zis.te/
- \syb.zis.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 subsister
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is subsister in French?
subsister appears 1.1 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).