cotiser

French

Etymology

From cote +‎ -iser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.ti.ze/

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Verb

cotiser

1. (intransitive) to contribute, subscribe (to)

Conjugation

Conjugation of cotiser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	cotiser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	cotisant /kɔ.ti.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		cotisé /kɔ.ti.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	cotise /kɔ.tiz/	cotises /kɔ.tiz/	cotise /kɔ.tiz/	cotisons /kɔ.ti.zɔ̃/	cotisez /kɔ.ti.ze/	cotisent /kɔ.tiz/
	imperfect	cotisais /kɔ.ti.zɛ/	cotisais /kɔ.ti.zɛ/	cotisait /kɔ.ti.zɛ/	cotisions /kɔ.ti.zjɔ̃/	cotisiez /kɔ.ti.zje/	cotisaient /kɔ.ti.zɛ/
	past historic2	cotisai /kɔ.ti.ze/	cotisas /kɔ.ti.za/	cotisa /kɔ.ti.za/	cotisâmes /kɔ.ti.zam/	cotisâtes /kɔ.ti.zat/	cotisèrent /kɔ.ti.zɛʁ/
	future	cotiserai /kɔ.tiz.ʁe/	cotiseras /kɔ.tiz.ʁa/	cotisera /kɔ.tiz.ʁa/	cotiserons /kɔ.tiz.ʁɔ̃/	cotiserez /kɔ.tiz.ʁe/	cotiseront /kɔ.tiz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	cotiserais /kɔ.tiz.ʁɛ/	cotiserais /kɔ.tiz.ʁɛ/	cotiserait /kɔ.tiz.ʁɛ/	cotiserions /kɔ.ti.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	cotiseriez /kɔ.ti.zə.ʁje/	cotiseraient /kɔ.tiz.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	cotise /kɔ.tiz/	cotises /kɔ.tiz/	cotise /kɔ.tiz/	cotisions /kɔ.ti.zjɔ̃/	cotisiez /kɔ.ti.zje/	cotisent /kɔ.tiz/
	imperfect2	cotisasse /kɔ.ti.zas/	cotisasses /kɔ.ti.zas/	cotisât /kɔ.ti.za/	cotisassions /kɔ.ti.za.sjɔ̃/	cotisassiez /kɔ.ti.za.sje/	cotisassent /kɔ.ti.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	cotise /kɔ.tiz/	—	cotisons /kɔ.ti.zɔ̃/	cotisez /kɔ.ti.ze/	—
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

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