cocotter

French

Alternative forms

• cocoter

Etymology

From cocotte.

Pronunciation

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Verb

cocotter

1. (intransitive, said of women) to yap, jabber, blather

Conjugation

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		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “cocotter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.