cocufier

French

Etymology

From cocu +‎ -ifier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.ky.fje/

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Verb

cocufier

1. (transitive) to be unfaithful to; to cuckold

   Synonym: encorner

   • 2000, Frédéric Beigbeder, 99 francs, Gallimard, →ISBN, page 170:

     Octave ignorait sa liaison avec Marc mais il aurait dû s’estimer heureux : être cocufié par son employeur équivalait à un licenciement indirect.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Conjugation

Conjugation of cocufier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	cocufier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	cocufiant /kɔ.ky.fjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		cocufié /kɔ.ky.fje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	cocufie /kɔ.ky.fi/	cocufies /kɔ.ky.fi/	cocufie /kɔ.ky.fi/	cocufions /kɔ.ky.fjɔ̃/	cocufiez /kɔ.ky.fje/	cocufient /kɔ.ky.fi/
	imperfect	cocufiais /kɔ.ky.fjɛ/	cocufiais /kɔ.ky.fjɛ/	cocufiait /kɔ.ky.fjɛ/	cocufiions /kɔ.ky.fi.jɔ̃/	cocufiiez /kɔ.ky.fi.je/	cocufiaient /kɔ.ky.fjɛ/
	past historic2	cocufiai /kɔ.ky.fje/	cocufias /kɔ.ky.fja/	cocufia /kɔ.ky.fja/	cocufiâmes /kɔ.ky.fjam/	cocufiâtes /kɔ.ky.fjat/	cocufièrent /kɔ.ky.fjɛʁ/
	future	cocufierai /kɔ.ky.fi.ʁe/	cocufieras /kɔ.ky.fi.ʁa/	cocufiera /kɔ.ky.fi.ʁa/	cocufierons /kɔ.ky.fi.ʁɔ̃/	cocufierez /kɔ.ky.fi.ʁe/	cocufieront /kɔ.ky.fi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	cocufierais /kɔ.ky.fi.ʁɛ/	cocufierais /kɔ.ky.fi.ʁɛ/	cocufierait /kɔ.ky.fi.ʁɛ/	cocufierions /kɔ.ky.fi.ʁjɔ̃/	cocufieriez /kɔ.ky.fi.ʁje/	cocufieraient /kɔ.ky.fi.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	cocufie /kɔ.ky.fi/	cocufies /kɔ.ky.fi/	cocufie /kɔ.ky.fi/	cocufiions /kɔ.ky.fi.jɔ̃/	cocufiiez /kɔ.ky.fi.je/	cocufient /kɔ.ky.fi/
	imperfect2	cocufiasse /kɔ.ky.fjas/	cocufiasses /kɔ.ky.fjas/	cocufiât /kɔ.ky.fja/	cocufiassions /kɔ.ky.fja.sjɔ̃/	cocufiassiez /kɔ.ky.fja.sje/	cocufiassent /kɔ.ky.fjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	cocufie /kɔ.ky.fi/	—	cocufions /kɔ.ky.fjɔ̃/	cocufiez /kɔ.ky.fje/	—
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

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