cocoter

Catalan

Etymology

coco +‎ -er

Noun

cocoter m (plural cocoters)

1. coconut palm

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French

Alternative forms

• cocotter

Etymology

From cocote

Verb

cocoter

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

Conjugation

Conjugation of cocoter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	cocoter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	cocotant /kɔ.kɔ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		cocoté /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	cocote /kɔ.kɔt/	cocotes /kɔ.kɔt/	cocote /kɔ.kɔt/	cocotons /kɔ.kɔ.tɔ̃/	cocotez /kɔ.kɔ.te/	cocotent /kɔ.kɔt/
	imperfect	cocotais /kɔ.kɔ.tɛ/	cocotais /kɔ.kɔ.tɛ/	cocotait /kɔ.kɔ.tɛ/	cocotions /kɔ.kɔ.tjɔ̃/	cocotiez /kɔ.kɔ.tje/	cocotaient /kɔ.kɔ.tɛ/
	past historic2	cocotai /kɔ.kɔ.te/	cocotas /kɔ.kɔ.ta/	cocota /kɔ.kɔ.ta/	cocotâmes /kɔ.kɔ.tam/	cocotâtes /kɔ.kɔ.tat/	cocotèrent /kɔ.kɔ.tɛʁ/
	future	cocoterai /kɔ.kɔ.tʁe/	cocoteras /kɔ.kɔ.tʁa/	cocotera /kɔ.kɔ.tʁa/	cocoterons /kɔ.kɔ.tʁɔ̃/	cocoterez /kɔ.kɔ.tʁe/	cocoteront /kɔ.kɔ.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	cocoterais /kɔ.kɔ.tʁɛ/	cocoterais /kɔ.kɔ.tʁɛ/	cocoterait /kɔ.kɔ.tʁɛ/	cocoterions /kɔ.kɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	cocoteriez /kɔ.kɔ.tə.ʁje/	cocoteraient /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	cocote /kɔ.kɔt/	cocotes /kɔ.kɔt/	cocote /kɔ.kɔt/	cocotions /kɔ.kɔ.tjɔ̃/	cocotiez /kɔ.kɔ.tje/	cocotent /kɔ.kɔt/
	imperfect2	cocotasse /kɔ.kɔ.tas/	cocotasses /kɔ.kɔ.tas/	cocotât /kɔ.kɔ.ta/	cocotassions /kɔ.kɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/	cocotassiez /kɔ.kɔ.ta.sje/	cocotassent /kɔ.kɔ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	cocote /kɔ.kɔt/	—	cocotons /kɔ.kɔ.tɔ̃/	cocotez /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

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