Consistir means ‘to consist’ (of). It is a regular -ir verb: consisto (present), consistí (preterite), consistido (past participle), consistiendo (gerund).
Consistir in use
¿En qué consiste el examen?What does the exam involve?
El trabajo consiste en atender a los clientesThe job involves dealing with customers
La receta consiste en mezclarlo todo y hornearloThe recipe involves mixing everything together and baking it
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Indicative
Statements of fact, certainty and objective reality
Consistir takes en, not de: el trabajo consiste en atender a los clientes (the job involves dealing with customers). For what something is made up of, use constar de: el examen consta de tres partes.
More tenses
The other perfect tenses (haber + past participle) and the past subjunctive
The imperfect subjunctive has two forms: -ra (more common in speech) and -se (more formal; still heard in speech in Spain, mainly written in Latin America). Both are equally correct and interchangeable.
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