cohabiter

English

Etymology

cohabit +‎ -er

Noun

cohabiter (plural cohabiters)

1. One who cohabits; a cohabitant.
   • 1628, Thomas Hobbes (translator), Thucydides (original in Greek), History of the Peloponnesian War

     neighbours and cohabiters of the same region, encompassed by the sea, and all called by one name, Sicilians.

   Synonyms: cohabitant, cohabitee, cohabitor

References

“cohabiter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

cohabiter

1. to cohabit, to live together

Conjugation

Conjugation of cohabiter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	cohabiter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	cohabitant /kɔ.a.bi.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		cohabité /kɔ.a.bi.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	cohabite /kɔ.a.bit/	cohabites /kɔ.a.bit/	cohabite /kɔ.a.bit/	cohabitons /kɔ.a.bi.tɔ̃/	cohabitez /kɔ.a.bi.te/	cohabitent /kɔ.a.bit/
	imperfect	cohabitais /kɔ.a.bi.tɛ/	cohabitais /kɔ.a.bi.tɛ/	cohabitait /kɔ.a.bi.tɛ/	cohabitions /kɔ.a.bi.tjɔ̃/	cohabitiez /kɔ.a.bi.tje/	cohabitaient /kɔ.a.bi.tɛ/
	past historic2	cohabitai /kɔ.a.bi.te/	cohabitas /kɔ.a.bi.ta/	cohabita /kɔ.a.bi.ta/	cohabitâmes /kɔ.a.bi.tam/	cohabitâtes /kɔ.a.bi.tat/	cohabitèrent /kɔ.a.bi.tɛʁ/
	future	cohabiterai /kɔ.a.bi.tʁe/	cohabiteras /kɔ.a.bi.tʁa/	cohabitera /kɔ.a.bi.tʁa/	cohabiterons /kɔ.a.bi.tʁɔ̃/	cohabiterez /kɔ.a.bi.tʁe/	cohabiteront /kɔ.a.bi.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	cohabiterais /kɔ.a.bi.tʁɛ/	cohabiterais /kɔ.a.bi.tʁɛ/	cohabiterait /kɔ.a.bi.tʁɛ/	cohabiterions /kɔ.a.bi.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	cohabiteriez /kɔ.a.bi.tə.ʁje/	cohabiteraient /kɔ.a.bi.tʁɛ/
(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	cohabite /kɔ.a.bit/	cohabites /kɔ.a.bit/	cohabite /kɔ.a.bit/	cohabitions /kɔ.a.bi.tjɔ̃/	cohabitiez /kɔ.a.bi.tje/	cohabitent /kɔ.a.bit/
	imperfect2	cohabitasse /kɔ.a.bi.tas/	cohabitasses /kɔ.a.bi.tas/	cohabitât /kɔ.a.bi.ta/	cohabitassions /kɔ.a.bi.ta.sjɔ̃/	cohabitassiez /kɔ.a.bi.ta.sje/	cohabitassent /kɔ.a.bi.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	cohabite /kɔ.a.bit/	—	cohabitons /kɔ.a.bi.tɔ̃/	cohabitez /kɔ.a.bi.te/	—
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).

Related terms

• cohabitation

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

cohabiter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of cohabitō