cogner

French

Etymology

Inherited from Latin cuneāre, ultimately from cuneus (“wedge”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.ɲe/

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Verb

cogner

1. to whack, to bash, to thump (hit hard)
   • 1962, “La Bagarre”, Vline Buggy (lyrics), Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller (music), performed by Johnny Hallyday:

     J’avoue que la bagarre / Je ne suis pas contre / Ça me fait pas peur / Je dirais même / Que j’aime cogner

     I admit that fighting / I'm not against it / It doesn't scare me / I would even say / That I like clouting people

2. to pound (of the heart)
   • 2018, Zaz, Résigne-moi:

     Je laisse aller ce que j’ai tant aimé, malgré mon cœur qui cogne et s’ouvrait

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. (intransitive, reflexive) to bump oneself

Conjugation

Conjugation of cogner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	cogner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	cognant /kɔ.ɲɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		cogné /kɔ.ɲe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	cogne /kɔɲ/	cognes /kɔɲ/	cogne /kɔɲ/	cognons /kɔ.ɲɔ̃/	cognez /kɔ.ɲe/	cognent /kɔɲ/
	imperfect	cognais /kɔ.ɲɛ/	cognais /kɔ.ɲɛ/	cognait /kɔ.ɲɛ/	cognions /kɔ.ɲjɔ̃/	cogniez /kɔ.ɲje/	cognaient /kɔ.ɲɛ/
	past historic2	cognai /kɔ.ɲe/	cognas /kɔ.ɲa/	cogna /kɔ.ɲa/	cognâmes /kɔ.ɲam/	cognâtes /kɔ.ɲat/	cognèrent /kɔ.ɲɛʁ/
	future	cognerai /kɔ.ɲə.ʁe/	cogneras /kɔ.ɲə.ʁa/	cognera /kɔ.ɲə.ʁa/	cognerons /kɔ.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/	cognerez /kɔ.ɲə.ʁe/	cogneront /kɔ.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	cognerais /kɔ.ɲə.ʁɛ/	cognerais /kɔ.ɲə.ʁɛ/	cognerait /kɔ.ɲə.ʁɛ/	cognerions /kɔ.ɲə.ʁjɔ̃/	cogneriez /kɔ.ɲə.ʁje/	cogneraient /kɔ.ɲə.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	cogne /kɔɲ/	cognes /kɔɲ/	cogne /kɔɲ/	cognions /kɔ.ɲjɔ̃/	cogniez /kɔ.ɲje/	cognent /kɔɲ/
	imperfect2	cognasse /kɔ.ɲas/	cognasses /kɔ.ɲas/	cognât /kɔ.ɲa/	cognassions /kɔ.ɲa.sjɔ̃/	cognassiez /kɔ.ɲa.sje/	cognassent /kɔ.ɲas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	cogne /kɔɲ/	—	cognons /kɔ.ɲɔ̃/	cognez /kɔ.ɲe/	—
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

• se cogner

 

Related terms

• coin

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• congre

Ladin

Alternative forms

• cognei

Verb

cogner

1. to have to; must

Conjugation

• Ladin conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Conjugation of cogner (first conjugation)

infinitive	cogner, cogné
auxiliary verb		ester	gerund		cognan
past participle		cogné
person	singular			plural
	first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative	ie	tu	el / ela	nos	vos	ei / eles
present	cogne, cogneie	cognes, cogneies	cogna, cogneia, cognea	cognon	cogneis	cogna, cogneia
imperfect	cognove	cognoves	cognova	cognovan	cognovais	cognova
future	cognaré	cognaras	cognarà	cognaron	cognareis	cognarà
subjunctive	che ie	che tu	che el / ela	che nos	che vos	che ei / eles
present	cogne, cogneie	cognes, cogneies	cogne, cogneie	cognon	cogneis	cogne
imperfect	cognasse	cognasses	cognassa	cognassan	cognassais	cognassa
imperative	–	tu	–	nos	vos	–
	—	cogna, cogneia	—	cognon	cognede	—

Synonyms

• messei

Venetan

Verb

cogner

1. to have to; must