cosser

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian cozzare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.se/

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Verb

cosser

1. (intransitive) to butt (ram heads together)

Conjugation

Conjugation of cosser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	cosser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	cossant /kɔ.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		cossé /kɔ.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	cosse /kɔs/	cosses /kɔs/	cosse /kɔs/	cossons /kɔ.sɔ̃/	cossez /kɔ.se/	cossent /kɔs/
	imperfect	cossais /kɔ.sɛ/	cossais /kɔ.sɛ/	cossait /kɔ.sɛ/	cossions /kɔ.sjɔ̃/	cossiez /kɔ.sje/	cossaient /kɔ.sɛ/
	past historic2	cossai /kɔ.se/	cossas /kɔ.sa/	cossa /kɔ.sa/	cossâmes /kɔ.sam/	cossâtes /kɔ.sat/	cossèrent /kɔ.sɛʁ/
	future	cosserai /kɔ.sʁe/	cosseras /kɔ.sʁa/	cossera /kɔ.sʁa/	cosserons /kɔ.sʁɔ̃/	cosserez /kɔ.sʁe/	cosseront /kɔ.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	cosserais /kɔ.sʁɛ/	cosserais /kɔ.sʁɛ/	cosserait /kɔ.sʁɛ/	cosserions /kɔ.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	cosseriez /kɔ.sə.ʁje/	cosseraient /kɔ.sʁɛ/
(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	cosse /kɔs/	cosses /kɔs/	cosse /kɔs/	cossions /kɔ.sjɔ̃/	cossiez /kɔ.sje/	cossent /kɔs/
	imperfect2	cossasse /kɔ.sas/	cossasses /kɔ.sas/	cossât /kɔ.sa/	cossassions /kɔ.sa.sjɔ̃/	cossassiez /kɔ.sa.sje/	cossassent /kɔ.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	cosse /kɔs/	—	cossons /kɔ.sɔ̃/	cossez /kɔ.se/	—
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

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