cocotter
French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From cocotte.
Pronunciation
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Verb
[edit]cocotter
- (intransitive, said of women) to yap, jabber, blather
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of cocotter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | cocotter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | cocottant /kɔ.kɔ.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | cocotté /kɔ.kɔ.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | cocotte /kɔ.kɔt/ |
cocottes /kɔ.kɔt/ |
cocotte /kɔ.kɔt/ |
cocottons /kɔ.kɔ.tɔ̃/ |
cocottez /kɔ.kɔ.te/ |
cocottent /kɔ.kɔt/ |
| imperfect | cocottais /kɔ.kɔ.tɛ/ |
cocottais /kɔ.kɔ.tɛ/ |
cocottait /kɔ.kɔ.tɛ/ |
cocottions /kɔ.kɔ.tjɔ̃/ |
cocottiez /kɔ.kɔ.tje/ |
cocottaient /kɔ.kɔ.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | cocottai /kɔ.kɔ.te/ |
cocottas /kɔ.kɔ.ta/ |
cocotta /kɔ.kɔ.ta/ |
cocottâmes /kɔ.kɔ.tam/ |
cocottâtes /kɔ.kɔ.tat/ |
cocottèrent /kɔ.kɔ.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | cocotterai /kɔ.kɔ.tʁe/ |
cocotteras /kɔ.kɔ.tʁa/ |
cocottera /kɔ.kɔ.tʁa/ |
cocotterons /kɔ.kɔ.tʁɔ̃/ |
cocotterez /kɔ.kɔ.tʁe/ |
cocotteront /kɔ.kɔ.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | cocotterais /kɔ.kɔ.tʁɛ/ |
cocotterais /kɔ.kɔ.tʁɛ/ |
cocotterait /kɔ.kɔ.tʁɛ/ |
cocotterions /kɔ.kɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
cocotteriez /kɔ.kɔ.tə.ʁje/ |
cocotteraient /kɔ.kɔ.tʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | cocotte /kɔ.kɔt/ |
cocottes /kɔ.kɔt/ |
cocotte /kɔ.kɔt/ |
cocottions /kɔ.kɔ.tjɔ̃/ |
cocottiez /kɔ.kɔ.tje/ |
cocottent /kɔ.kɔt/ |
| imperfect2 | cocottasse /kɔ.kɔ.tas/ |
cocottasses /kɔ.kɔ.tas/ |
cocottât /kɔ.kɔ.ta/ |
cocottassions /kɔ.kɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
cocottassiez /kɔ.kɔ.ta.sje/ |
cocottassent /kɔ.kɔ.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | cocotte /kɔ.kɔt/ |
— | cocottons /kɔ.kɔ.tɔ̃/ |
cocottez /kɔ.kɔ.te/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
[edit]- “cocotter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.