copiner

French

Etymology

From copine +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.pi.ne/

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Verb

copiner

1. (intransitive) to be friends (with)
2. (derogatory) to be in a friendly relationship with someone in order to gain an advantage

Conjugation

Conjugation of copiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	copiner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	copinant /kɔ.pi.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		copiné /kɔ.pi.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	copine /kɔ.pin/	copines /kɔ.pin/	copine /kɔ.pin/	copinons /kɔ.pi.nɔ̃/	copinez /kɔ.pi.ne/	copinent /kɔ.pin/
	imperfect	copinais /kɔ.pi.nɛ/	copinais /kɔ.pi.nɛ/	copinait /kɔ.pi.nɛ/	copinions /kɔ.pi.njɔ̃/	copiniez /kɔ.pi.nje/	copinaient /kɔ.pi.nɛ/
	past historic2	copinai /kɔ.pi.ne/	copinas /kɔ.pi.na/	copina /kɔ.pi.na/	copinâmes /kɔ.pi.nam/	copinâtes /kɔ.pi.nat/	copinèrent /kɔ.pi.nɛʁ/
	future	copinerai /kɔ.pin.ʁe/	copineras /kɔ.pin.ʁa/	copinera /kɔ.pin.ʁa/	copinerons /kɔ.pin.ʁɔ̃/	copinerez /kɔ.pin.ʁe/	copineront /kɔ.pin.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	copinerais /kɔ.pin.ʁɛ/	copinerais /kɔ.pin.ʁɛ/	copinerait /kɔ.pin.ʁɛ/	copinerions /kɔ.pi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	copineriez /kɔ.pi.nə.ʁje/	copineraient /kɔ.pin.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	copine /kɔ.pin/	copines /kɔ.pin/	copine /kɔ.pin/	copinions /kɔ.pi.njɔ̃/	copiniez /kɔ.pi.nje/	copinent /kɔ.pin/
	imperfect2	copinasse /kɔ.pi.nas/	copinasses /kɔ.pi.nas/	copinât /kɔ.pi.na/	copinassions /kɔ.pi.na.sjɔ̃/	copinassiez /kɔ.pi.na.sje/	copinassent /kɔ.pi.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	copine /kɔ.pin/	—	copinons /kɔ.pi.nɔ̃/	copinez /kɔ.pi.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).

Derived terms

• copinage

Related terms

• copain (“friend”)

Further reading

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