cogner
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin cuneāre, ultimately from cuneus (“wedge”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
cogner
- to whack, to bash, to thump (hit hard)
- 1962, “La Bagarre”, Vline Buggy (lyrics), Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller (music), performed by Johnny Hallyday:
- J’avoue que la bagarre / Je ne suis pas contre / Ça me fait pas peur / Je dirais même / Que j’aime cogner
- I admit that fighting / I'm not against it / It doesn't scare me / I would even say / That I like clouting people
- to pound (of the heart)
- 2018, Zaz, Résigne-moi:
- Je laisse aller ce que j’ai tant aimé, malgré mon cœur qui cogne et s’ouvrait
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (intransitive, reflexive) to bump oneself
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of cogner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | cogner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | cognant /kɔ.ɲɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | cogné /kɔ.ɲe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | cogne /kɔɲ/ |
cognes /kɔɲ/ |
cogne /kɔɲ/ |
cognons /kɔ.ɲɔ̃/ |
cognez /kɔ.ɲe/ |
cognent /kɔɲ/ |
| imperfect | cognais /kɔ.ɲɛ/ |
cognais /kɔ.ɲɛ/ |
cognait /kɔ.ɲɛ/ |
cognions /kɔ.ɲjɔ̃/ |
cogniez /kɔ.ɲje/ |
cognaient /kɔ.ɲɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | cognai /kɔ.ɲe/ |
cognas /kɔ.ɲa/ |
cogna /kɔ.ɲa/ |
cognâmes /kɔ.ɲam/ |
cognâtes /kɔ.ɲat/ |
cognèrent /kɔ.ɲɛʁ/ | |
| future | cognerai /kɔ.ɲə.ʁe/ |
cogneras /kɔ.ɲə.ʁa/ |
cognera /kɔ.ɲə.ʁa/ |
cognerons /kɔ.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/ |
cognerez /kɔ.ɲə.ʁe/ |
cogneront /kɔ.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | cognerais /kɔ.ɲə.ʁɛ/ |
cognerais /kɔ.ɲə.ʁɛ/ |
cognerait /kɔ.ɲə.ʁɛ/ |
cognerions /kɔ.ɲə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
cogneriez /kɔ.ɲə.ʁje/ |
cogneraient /kɔ.ɲə.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 | cogne /kɔɲ/ |
cognes /kɔɲ/ |
cogne /kɔɲ/ |
cognions /kɔ.ɲjɔ̃/ |
cogniez /kɔ.ɲje/ |
cognent /kɔɲ/ |
| imperfect2 | cognasse /kɔ.ɲas/ |
cognasses /kɔ.ɲas/ |
cognât /kɔ.ɲa/ |
cognassions /kɔ.ɲa.sjɔ̃/ |
cognassiez /kɔ.ɲa.sje/ |
cognassent /kɔ.ɲas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | cogne /kɔɲ/ |
— | cognons /kɔ.ɲɔ̃/ |
cognez /kɔ.ɲe/ |
— | |
| 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
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “cogner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Ladin edit
Alternative forms edit
Verb edit
cogner
Conjugation edit
- Ladin conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.
Conjugation of cogner (first conjugation)
| infinitive | cogner, cogné | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| auxiliary verb | ester | gerund | cognan | |||
| past participle | cogné | |||||
| person | singular | plural | ||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | |
| indicative | ie | tu | el / ela | nos | vos | ei / eles |
| present | cogne, cogneie | cognes, cogneies | cogna, cogneia, cognea | cognon | cogneis | cogna, cogneia |
| imperfect | cognove | cognoves | cognova | cognovan | cognovais | cognova |
| future | cognaré | cognaras | cognarà | cognaron | cognareis | cognarà |
| subjunctive | che ie | che tu | che el / ela | che nos | che vos | che ei / eles |
| present | cogne, cogneie | cognes, cogneies | cogne, cogneie | cognon | cogneis | cogne |
| imperfect | cognasse | cognasses | cognassa | cognassan | cognassais | cognassa |
| imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – |
| — | cogna, cogneia | — | cognon | cognede | — | |
Synonyms edit
Venetian edit
Verb edit
cogner