cochonner

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

cochonner

1. to mess up

Conjugation

Conjugation of cochonner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	cochonner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	cochonnant /kɔ.ʃɔ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		cochonné /kɔ.ʃɔ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	cochonne /kɔ.ʃɔn/	cochonnes /kɔ.ʃɔn/	cochonne /kɔ.ʃɔn/	cochonnons /kɔ.ʃɔ.nɔ̃/	cochonnez /kɔ.ʃɔ.ne/	cochonnent /kɔ.ʃɔn/
	imperfect	cochonnais /kɔ.ʃɔ.nɛ/	cochonnais /kɔ.ʃɔ.nɛ/	cochonnait /kɔ.ʃɔ.nɛ/	cochonnions /kɔ.ʃɔ.njɔ̃/	cochonniez /kɔ.ʃɔ.nje/	cochonnaient /kɔ.ʃɔ.nɛ/
	past historic2	cochonnai /kɔ.ʃɔ.ne/	cochonnas /kɔ.ʃɔ.na/	cochonna /kɔ.ʃɔ.na/	cochonnâmes /kɔ.ʃɔ.nam/	cochonnâtes /kɔ.ʃɔ.nat/	cochonnèrent /kɔ.ʃɔ.nɛʁ/
	future	cochonnerai /kɔ.ʃɔn.ʁe/	cochonneras /kɔ.ʃɔn.ʁa/	cochonnera /kɔ.ʃɔn.ʁa/	cochonnerons /kɔ.ʃɔn.ʁɔ̃/	cochonnerez /kɔ.ʃɔn.ʁe/	cochonneront /kɔ.ʃɔn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	cochonnerais /kɔ.ʃɔn.ʁɛ/	cochonnerais /kɔ.ʃɔn.ʁɛ/	cochonnerait /kɔ.ʃɔn.ʁɛ/	cochonnerions /kɔ.ʃɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	cochonneriez /kɔ.ʃɔ.nə.ʁje/	cochonneraient /kɔ.ʃɔn.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	cochonne /kɔ.ʃɔn/	cochonnes /kɔ.ʃɔn/	cochonne /kɔ.ʃɔn/	cochonnions /kɔ.ʃɔ.njɔ̃/	cochonniez /kɔ.ʃɔ.nje/	cochonnent /kɔ.ʃɔn/
	imperfect2	cochonnasse /kɔ.ʃɔ.nas/	cochonnasses /kɔ.ʃɔ.nas/	cochonnât /kɔ.ʃɔ.na/	cochonnassions /kɔ.ʃɔ.na.sjɔ̃/	cochonnassiez /kɔ.ʃɔ.na.sje/	cochonnassent /kɔ.ʃɔ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	cochonne /kɔ.ʃɔn/	—	cochonnons /kɔ.ʃɔ.nɔ̃/	cochonnez /kɔ.ʃɔ.ne/	—
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

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