You insist upon our taking that course of action.
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Insist
//ɪnˈsɪst//
Synonyms for "insist" (92 found)
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Translations
78 translations across 36 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- këmbëngul verb (to hold up a claim emphatically)
Arabic
2 entries- أَصَرَّ verb (to hold up a claim emphatically)
- أَلَحَّ verb (to demand that something be done)
Armenian
2 entries- պնդել verb (to hold up a claim emphatically)
- պնդել verb (to demand that something be done)
Bulgarian
1 entries- настоявам verb (to hold up a claim emphatically)
Catalan
2 entries- insistir verb (to hold up a claim emphatically)
- insistir verb (to demand that something be done)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 堅持 /坚持 verb (to hold up a claim emphatically)
Czech
1 entries- trvat na verb (to hold up a claim emphatically)
Danish
2 entries- insistere verb (to hold up a claim emphatically)
- insistere verb (to demand that something be done)
Dutch
4 entries- aandringen verb (to hold up a claim emphatically)
- blijven bij verb (to hold up a claim emphatically)
- erop staan verb (to hold up a claim emphatically)
- met klem beweren verb (to hold up a claim emphatically)
Esperanto
1 entries- insisti verb (to hold up a claim emphatically)
Finnish
4 entries- inttää verb (to hold up a claim emphatically)
- vaatia verb (to hold up a claim emphatically)
- vaatia verb (to demand that something be done)
- vakuuttaa verb (to hold up a claim emphatically)
French
1 entries- insister verb (to hold up a claim emphatically)
Galician
4 entries- insistir verb (to hold up a claim emphatically)
- insistir verb (to demand that something be done)
- porfiar verb (to hold up a claim emphatically)
- porfiar verb (to demand that something be done)
German
3 entries- auf etwas bestehen verb (to hold up a claim emphatically)
- beharren verb (to hold up a claim emphatically)
- insistieren verb (to hold up a claim emphatically)
Greek
1 entries- επιμένω verb (to hold up a claim emphatically)
Hebrew
3 entries- דָּרַשׁ verb (to demand that something be done)
- הִקְפִּיד verb (to demand that something be done)
- הִתְעַקֵּשׁ verb (to demand that something be done)
Hungarian
2 entries- kitart verb (to hold up a claim emphatically)
- ragaszkodik verb (to hold up a claim emphatically)
Indonesian
1 entries- bersikeras verb (to hold up a claim emphatically)
Italian
2 entries- insistere verb (to hold up a claim emphatically)
- insistere verb (to demand that something be done)
Japanese
1 entries- 主張する verb (to hold up a claim emphatically)
Khmer
1 entries- ទទូច verb (to demand that something be done)
Korean
1 entries- 주장하다 verb (to hold up a claim emphatically)
Latin
2 entries- efflāgitō verb (to hold up a claim emphatically)
- teneō verb (to hold up a claim emphatically)
Macedonian
2 entries- насто́јува verb (to hold up a claim emphatically)
- насто́јува verb (to demand that something be done)
Māori
3 entries- ungaunga verb (to demand that something be done)
- whakanonoi verb (to hold up a claim emphatically)
- whakanonoi verb (to demand that something be done)
Persian
2 entries- اصرار کردن verb (to hold up a claim emphatically)
- پافشاری کردن verb (to hold up a claim emphatically)
Polish
1 entries- nalegać verb (to demand that something be done)
Portuguese
1 entries- insistir verb (to hold up a claim emphatically)
Romanian
1 entries- insista verb (to hold up a claim emphatically)
Russian
2 entries- наста́ивать verb (to hold up a claim emphatically)
- настоя́ть verb (to hold up a claim emphatically)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- insistirati verb (to hold up a claim emphatically)
- inzistirati verb (to hold up a claim emphatically)
- ustrajati verb (to hold up a claim emphatically)
- ustrajati verb (to demand that something be done)
Slovak
1 entries- trvať (na) verb (to hold up a claim emphatically)
Spanish
4 entries- empeñarse verb (to hold up a claim emphatically)
- insistir verb (to hold up a claim emphatically)
- insistir verb (to demand that something be done)
- instar verb (to demand that something be done)
Telugu
1 entries- పట్టుబట్టు verb (to hold up a claim emphatically)
Turkish
4 entries- bastırmak verb (to hold up a claim emphatically)
- yinelemek verb (to hold up a claim emphatically)
- üstelemek verb (to hold up a claim emphatically)
- ısrar etmek verb (to hold up a claim emphatically)
Ukrainian
4 entries- наполяга́ти verb (to hold up a claim emphatically)
- наполяга́ти verb (to demand that something be done)
- наполягти́ verb (to hold up a claim emphatically)
- наполягти́ verb (to demand that something be done)
Sample sentences
19 total sentences available.
You always insist that you are in the right.
Source: tatoeba (16770)
I'll do it, if you insist.
Source: tatoeba (18010)
We insist that a meeting be held as soon as possible.
Source: tatoeba (22425)
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