coiffer
French edit
Etymology edit
From coiffe.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
coiffer
- (transitive) to cover the head
- (transitive) to give a haircut; to do the hair of
- (reflexive) to do one's own hair
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of coiffer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | coiffer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | coiffant /kwa.fɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | coiffé /kwa.fe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | coiffe /kwaf/ |
coiffes /kwaf/ |
coiffe /kwaf/ |
coiffons /kwa.fɔ̃/ |
coiffez /kwa.fe/ |
coiffent /kwaf/ |
| imperfect | coiffais /kwa.fɛ/ |
coiffais /kwa.fɛ/ |
coiffait /kwa.fɛ/ |
coiffions /kwa.fjɔ̃/ |
coiffiez /kwa.fje/ |
coiffaient /kwa.fɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | coiffai /kwa.fe/ |
coiffas /kwa.fa/ |
coiffa /kwa.fa/ |
coiffâmes /kwa.fam/ |
coiffâtes /kwa.fat/ |
coiffèrent /kwa.fɛʁ/ | |
| future | coifferai /kwa.fʁe/ |
coifferas /kwa.fʁa/ |
coiffera /kwa.fʁa/ |
coifferons /kwa.fʁɔ̃/ |
coifferez /kwa.fʁe/ |
coifferont /kwa.fʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | coifferais /kwa.fʁɛ/ |
coifferais /kwa.fʁɛ/ |
coifferait /kwa.fʁɛ/ |
coifferions /kwa.fə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
coifferiez /kwa.fə.ʁje/ |
coifferaient /kwa.fʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | coiffe /kwaf/ |
coiffes /kwaf/ |
coiffe /kwaf/ |
coiffions /kwa.fjɔ̃/ |
coiffiez /kwa.fje/ |
coiffent /kwaf/ |
| imperfect2 | coiffasse /kwa.fas/ |
coiffasses /kwa.fas/ |
coiffât /kwa.fa/ |
coiffassions /kwa.fa.sjɔ̃/ |
coiffassiez /kwa.fa.sje/ |
coiffassent /kwa.fas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | coiffe /kwaf/ |
— | coiffons /kwa.fɔ̃/ |
coiffez /kwa.fe/ |
— | |
| 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 edit
Further reading edit
- “coiffer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.