cocher

See also: côcher

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.ʃe/

Etymology 1

From coche (“stagecoach”) +‎ -ier.

Noun

cocher m (plural cochers)

1. stagecoach driver

Derived terms

• maladie du cocher

Etymology 2

From coche (“tick”) +‎ -er.

Verb

cocher

1. (transitive) to tick; to tick off (to place a tick symbol on, e.g. a form)
2. (transitive) to cross (to place a cross symbol on, e.g. a form)

Conjugation

Conjugation of cocher (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	cocher
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	cochant /kɔ.ʃɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		coché /kɔ.ʃe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	coche /kɔʃ/	coches /kɔʃ/	coche /kɔʃ/	cochons /kɔ.ʃɔ̃/	cochez /kɔ.ʃe/	cochent /kɔʃ/
	imperfect	cochais /kɔ.ʃɛ/	cochais /kɔ.ʃɛ/	cochait /kɔ.ʃɛ/	cochions /kɔ.ʃjɔ̃/	cochiez /kɔ.ʃje/	cochaient /kɔ.ʃɛ/
	past historic2	cochai /kɔ.ʃe/	cochas /kɔ.ʃa/	cocha /kɔ.ʃa/	cochâmes /kɔ.ʃam/	cochâtes /kɔ.ʃat/	cochèrent /kɔ.ʃɛʁ/
	future	cocherai /kɔʃ.ʁe/	cocheras /kɔʃ.ʁa/	cochera /kɔʃ.ʁa/	cocherons /kɔʃ.ʁɔ̃/	cocherez /kɔʃ.ʁe/	cocheront /kɔʃ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	cocherais /kɔʃ.ʁɛ/	cocherais /kɔʃ.ʁɛ/	cocherait /kɔʃ.ʁɛ/	cocherions /kɔ.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/	cocheriez /kɔ.ʃə.ʁje/	cocheraient /kɔʃ.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	coche /kɔʃ/	coches /kɔʃ/	coche /kɔʃ/	cochions /kɔ.ʃjɔ̃/	cochiez /kɔ.ʃje/	cochent /kɔʃ/
	imperfect2	cochasse /kɔ.ʃas/	cochasses /kɔ.ʃas/	cochât /kɔ.ʃa/	cochassions /kɔ.ʃa.sjɔ̃/	cochassiez /kɔ.ʃa.sje/	cochassent /kɔ.ʃas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	coche /kɔʃ/	—	cochons /kɔ.ʃɔ̃/	cochez /kɔ.ʃe/	—
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

• case à cocher

Further reading

• “cocher” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
• “cocher” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
• “cocher”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• croche