cotifar

Galician

From coteife (“soldier of low extraction”), from Arabic خُطَيْف (ḵuṭayf), diminutive of African Arabic خُطَّاف (ḵuṭṭāf).^[1]

cotifar (first-person singular present cotifo, first-person singular preterite cotifei, past participle cotifado)

Conjugation of cotifar

Reintegrated conjugation of cotifar (See Appendix:Reintegrationism)

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (ti / tu)	Third-person (ele / ela / você)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / vocês)
Infinitive
Impersonal	cotifar
Personal	cotifar	cotifares	cotifar	cotifarmos	cotifardes	cotifarem
Gerund
	cotifando
Past participle
Masculine	cotifado			cotifados
Feminine	cotifada			cotifadas
Indicative
Present	cotifo	cotifas	cotifa	cotifamos	cotifades, cotifais	cotifam
Imperfect	cotifava	cotifavas	cotifava	cotifávamos	cotifávades, cotifáveis, cotifávais¹	cotifavam
Preterite	cotifei	cotifaste, cotifache¹	cotifou	cotifamos	cotifastes	cotifárom, cotifaram
Pluperfect	cotifara	cotifaras	cotifara	cotifáramos	cotifárades, cotifáreis, cotifárais¹	cotifaram
Future	cotifarei	cotifarás	cotifará	cotifaremos	cotifaredes, cotifareis	cotifarám, cotifarão
Conditional	cotifaria	cotifarias	cotifaria	cotifaríamos	cotifaríades, cotifaríeis, cotifaríais¹	cotifariam
Subjunctive
Present	cotife	cotifes	cotife	cotifemos	cotifedes, cotifeis	cotifem
Imperfect	cotifasse	cotifasses	cotifasse	cotifássemos	cotifássedes, cotifásseis	cotifassem
Future	cotifar	cotifares	cotifar	cotifarmos	cotifardes	cotifarem
Imperative
Affirmative		cotifa	cotife	cotifemos	cotifade, cotifai	cotifem
Negative (nom)		nom cotifes	nom cotife	nom cotifemos	nom cotifedes, nom cotifeis	nom cotifem

¹Less recommended.

Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “coteife”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “coteif”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cotifar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cotifar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
“cotifar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cotifar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN