Past tense of persist
regular verb
The past tense of persist is persisted. The past participle is also persisted.
Forms of persist
| Base form (V1) | persist /pɚˈsɪst/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | persisted /pɚˈsɪstɪd/ |
| Past participle (V3) | persisted /pɚˈsɪstɪd/ |
| Present participle | persisting |
| Third person singular | persists |
Persisted in a sentence
- Throughout the period, toothy giants persisted in the oceans.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 139
- The salesman persisted in quoting a rate higher than was listed, until we called him on it.From the entry call on
- He, notwithstanding, persisted in his inquiries.From the entry notwithstanding
- Her feeling of hypervisibility persisted all the way through breakfast and throughout the morning.2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 386. From the entry hypervisibility
- Even with the economy in free fall, demand for cheap, cute clothes persisted.2021 February 6, Rachel Monroe, “Ultra-fast Fashion Is Eating the World”, in The Atlantic. From the entry freefall
Meaning of persist
- verb To go on stubbornly or resolutely.
- verb To repeat an utterance.
- verb To continue to exist.
Questions about the past tense of persist
- What is the past tense of persist?
- The past tense of persist is persisted.
- What is the past participle of persist?
- The past participle of persist is persisted.
- Is persist a regular or irregular verb?
- Persist is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: persist (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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