cocher
See also: côcher
French
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom coche (“stagecoach”) + -ier.
Noun
editcocher m (plural cochers)
- stagecoach driver
Derived terms
editEtymology 2
editVerb
editcocher
- (transitive) to tick; to tick off (to place a tick symbol on, e.g. a form)
- (transitive) to cross (to place a cross symbol on, e.g. a form)
Conjugation
editConjugation of cocher (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | cocher | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | cochant /kɔ.ʃɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | coché /kɔ.ʃe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | coche /kɔʃ/ |
coches /kɔʃ/ |
coche /kɔʃ/ |
cochons /kɔ.ʃɔ̃/ |
cochez /kɔ.ʃe/ |
cochent /kɔʃ/ |
| imperfect | cochais /kɔ.ʃɛ/ |
cochais /kɔ.ʃɛ/ |
cochait /kɔ.ʃɛ/ |
cochions /kɔ.ʃjɔ̃/ |
cochiez /kɔ.ʃje/ |
cochaient /kɔ.ʃɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | cochai /kɔ.ʃe/ |
cochas /kɔ.ʃa/ |
cocha /kɔ.ʃa/ |
cochâmes /kɔ.ʃam/ |
cochâtes /kɔ.ʃat/ |
cochèrent /kɔ.ʃɛʁ/ | |
| future | cocherai /kɔʃ.ʁe/ |
cocheras /kɔʃ.ʁa/ |
cochera /kɔʃ.ʁa/ |
cocherons /kɔʃ.ʁɔ̃/ |
cocherez /kɔʃ.ʁe/ |
cocheront /kɔʃ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | cocherais /kɔʃ.ʁɛ/ |
cocherais /kɔʃ.ʁɛ/ |
cocherait /kɔʃ.ʁɛ/ |
cocherions /kɔ.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
cocheriez /kɔ.ʃə.ʁje/ |
cocheraient /kɔʃ.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 | coche /kɔʃ/ |
coches /kɔʃ/ |
coche /kɔʃ/ |
cochions /kɔ.ʃjɔ̃/ |
cochiez /kɔ.ʃje/ |
cochent /kɔʃ/ |
| imperfect2 | cochasse /kɔ.ʃas/ |
cochasses /kɔ.ʃas/ |
cochât /kɔ.ʃa/ |
cochassions /kɔ.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ |
cochassiez /kɔ.ʃa.sje/ |
cochassent /kɔ.ʃas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | coche /kɔʃ/ |
— | cochons /kɔ.ʃɔ̃/ |
cochez /kɔ.ʃe/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “cocher” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
- “cocher” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
- “cocher”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.