cocufier
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ.ky.fje/
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Verb
cocufier
- (transitive) to be unfaithful to; to cuckold
- Synonym: encorner
- 2000, Frédéric Beigbeder, 99 francs, Gallimard, →ISBN, page 170:
- Octave ignorait sa liaison avec Marc mais il aurait dû s’estimer heureux : être cocufié par son employeur équivalait à un licenciement indirect.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
Conjugation of cocufier (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | cocufier | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | cocufiant /kɔ.ky.fjɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | cocufié /kɔ.ky.fje/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | cocufie /kɔ.ky.fi/ |
cocufies /kɔ.ky.fi/ |
cocufie /kɔ.ky.fi/ |
cocufions /kɔ.ky.fjɔ̃/ |
cocufiez /kɔ.ky.fje/ |
cocufient /kɔ.ky.fi/ |
| imperfect | cocufiais /kɔ.ky.fjɛ/ |
cocufiais /kɔ.ky.fjɛ/ |
cocufiait /kɔ.ky.fjɛ/ |
cocufiions /kɔ.ky.fi.jɔ̃/ |
cocufiiez /kɔ.ky.fi.je/ |
cocufiaient /kɔ.ky.fjɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | cocufiai /kɔ.ky.fje/ |
cocufias /kɔ.ky.fja/ |
cocufia /kɔ.ky.fja/ |
cocufiâmes /kɔ.ky.fjam/ |
cocufiâtes /kɔ.ky.fjat/ |
cocufièrent /kɔ.ky.fjɛʁ/ | |
| future | cocufierai /kɔ.ky.fi.ʁe/ |
cocufieras /kɔ.ky.fi.ʁa/ |
cocufiera /kɔ.ky.fi.ʁa/ |
cocufierons /kɔ.ky.fi.ʁɔ̃/ |
cocufierez /kɔ.ky.fi.ʁe/ |
cocufieront /kɔ.ky.fi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | cocufierais /kɔ.ky.fi.ʁɛ/ |
cocufierais /kɔ.ky.fi.ʁɛ/ |
cocufierait /kɔ.ky.fi.ʁɛ/ |
cocufierions /kɔ.ky.fi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
cocufieriez /kɔ.ky.fi.ʁje/ |
cocufieraient /kɔ.ky.fi.ʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | cocufie /kɔ.ky.fi/ |
cocufies /kɔ.ky.fi/ |
cocufie /kɔ.ky.fi/ |
cocufiions /kɔ.ky.fi.jɔ̃/ |
cocufiiez /kɔ.ky.fi.je/ |
cocufient /kɔ.ky.fi/ |
| imperfect2 | cocufiasse /kɔ.ky.fjas/ |
cocufiasses /kɔ.ky.fjas/ |
cocufiât /kɔ.ky.fja/ |
cocufiassions /kɔ.ky.fja.sjɔ̃/ |
cocufiassiez /kɔ.ky.fja.sje/ |
cocufiassent /kɔ.ky.fjas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | cocufie /kɔ.ky.fi/ |
— | cocufions /kɔ.ky.fjɔ̃/ |
cocufiez /kɔ.ky.fje/ |
— | |
| 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
- “cocufier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.