Past tense of subsist
regular verb
The past tense of subsist is subsisted. The past participle is also subsisted.
Forms of subsist
| Base form (V1) | subsist /səbˈsɪst/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | subsisted |
| Past participle (V3) | subsisted |
| Present participle | subsisting |
| Third person singular | subsists |
Subsisted in a sentence
- Food was scarce; sometimes they subsisted on bananas.2015, Adam Schatz, “Drawing Blood”, in The New Yorker, F-R Pub. Corp., page 60. From the entry Marge Simpson
Meaning of subsist
- verb To survive on a minimum of resources.
- verb To have ontological reality; to exist.
- verb To retain a certain state; to continue.
Questions about the past tense of subsist
- What is the past tense of subsist?
- The past tense of subsist is subsisted.
- What is the past participle of subsist?
- The past participle of subsist is subsisted.
- Is subsist a regular or irregular verb?
- Subsist is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: subsist (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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