cousiner

French

Etymology

From cousin +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

cousiner

1. to get along; to get on well

Usage notes

This suggest having a relationship akin to one shared by cousins.

Conjugation

Conjugation of cousiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	cousiner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	cousinant /ku.zi.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		cousiné /ku.zi.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	cousine /ku.zin/	cousines /ku.zin/	cousine /ku.zin/	cousinons /ku.zi.nɔ̃/	cousinez /ku.zi.ne/	cousinent /ku.zin/
	imperfect	cousinais /ku.zi.nɛ/	cousinais /ku.zi.nɛ/	cousinait /ku.zi.nɛ/	cousinions /ku.zi.njɔ̃/	cousiniez /ku.zi.nje/	cousinaient /ku.zi.nɛ/
	past historic2	cousinai /ku.zi.ne/	cousinas /ku.zi.na/	cousina /ku.zi.na/	cousinâmes /ku.zi.nam/	cousinâtes /ku.zi.nat/	cousinèrent /ku.zi.nɛʁ/
	future	cousinerai /ku.zin.ʁe/	cousineras /ku.zin.ʁa/	cousinera /ku.zin.ʁa/	cousinerons /ku.zin.ʁɔ̃/	cousinerez /ku.zin.ʁe/	cousineront /ku.zin.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	cousinerais /ku.zin.ʁɛ/	cousinerais /ku.zin.ʁɛ/	cousinerait /ku.zin.ʁɛ/	cousinerions /ku.zi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	cousineriez /ku.zi.nə.ʁje/	cousineraient /ku.zin.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	cousine /ku.zin/	cousines /ku.zin/	cousine /ku.zin/	cousinions /ku.zi.njɔ̃/	cousiniez /ku.zi.nje/	cousinent /ku.zin/
	imperfect2	cousinasse /ku.zi.nas/	cousinasses /ku.zi.nas/	cousinât /ku.zi.na/	cousinassions /ku.zi.na.sjɔ̃/	cousinassiez /ku.zi.na.sje/	cousinassent /ku.zi.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	cousine /ku.zin/	—	cousinons /ku.zi.nɔ̃/	cousinez /ku.zi.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).

Further reading

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