# insistir
## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnsistere, with normal change of conjugation to -ir.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [in.sisˈti]
* IPA: (Valencia) [in.sisˈtiɾ]

### Verb

insistir (first-person singular present insisteixo, first-person singular preterite insistí, past participle insistit)
* to insist

#### Related terms

* insistència
* insistent

### Further reading

* “insistir” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “insistir”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “insistir” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “insistir” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Galician
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /insisˈtiɾ/ [in.s̺is̺ˈt̪iɾ]
* Rhymes: -iɾ
* Hyphenation: in‧sis‧tir

### Verb

insistir (first-person singular present insisto, first-person singular preterite insistín, past participle insistido) insistir (first-person singular present insisto, first-person singular preterite insistim or insisti, past participle insistido, reintegrationist norm)
* to insist

#### Conjugation

$^1$Less recommended.

#### Related terms

* insistencia

### Further reading

* “insistir”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
* “insistir” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

## Occitan
### Pronunciation

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### Verb

insistir
* to insist

#### Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

#### Related terms

* insisténcia
* insistent
* insistentament

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnsistere, with change of conjugation.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ĩ.sisˈt͡ʃi(ʁ)/ [ĩ.sisˈt͡ʃi(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ĩ.sisˈt͡ʃi(ʁ)/ [ĩ.sisˈt͡ʃi(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /ĩ.sisˈt͡ʃi(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ĩ.siʃˈt͡ʃi(ʁ)/ [ĩ.siʃˈt͡ʃi(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ĩ.sisˈt͡ʃi(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ĩ.siʃˈtiɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ĩ.siʃˈtiɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ĩ.siʃˈti.ɾi/
* (Northeast Brazil) IPA: /ĩ.siʃˈti(χ)/
* Hyphenation: in‧sis‧tir

### Verb

insistir (first-person singular present insisto, first-person singular preterite insisti, past participle insistido)
* to insist

#### Related terms

* insistência
* insistente

### Further reading

* “insistir”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

From Latin īnsistere.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /insisˈtiɾ/ [ĩn.sisˈt̪iɾ]
* Rhymes: -iɾ
* Syllabification: in‧sis‧tir

### Verb

insistir (first-person singular present insisto, first-person singular preterite insistí, past participle insistido)
* to insist

#### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

#### Related terms

* insistencia
* insistente

### Further reading

* “insistir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10