perdurare

Today's Parola del Giorno is the intransitive verb, perdurare, which means:

• to last
  
• to persist

Even though this verb is intransitive, avere is still used in compound tenses. Perdurato is the past participle.

You can see the verb used in its context below:

Anche se la crisi economica sembra di migliorare, i tagli occupazionli perdurano e molte persone perdono ancora i loro lavori.

Even though the economic crisis seems to be improving, job cuts are persisting and many people are still losing their jobs.