From Middle English couter, said to be from an Anglo-French variant couter, cuter of continental French coudière, from coute (“elbow”).
couter (plural couters)
Perhaps from "Danubian-Gipsy cuta, gold coin", compare Romani kotor (“piece, fragment”), reportedly used for a guinea.
couter (plural couters)
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couter
infinitive | simple | couter | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | coutant /ku.tɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | couté /ku.te/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | coute /kut/ |
coutes /kut/ |
coute /kut/ |
coutons /ku.tɔ̃/ |
coutez /ku.te/ |
coutent /kut/ |
imperfect | coutais /ku.tɛ/ |
coutais /ku.tɛ/ |
coutait /ku.tɛ/ |
coutions /ku.tjɔ̃/ |
coutiez /ku.tje/ |
coutaient /ku.tɛ/ | |
past historic2 | coutai /ku.te/ |
coutas /ku.ta/ |
couta /ku.ta/ |
coutâmes /ku.tam/ |
coutâtes /ku.tat/ |
coutèrent /ku.tɛʁ/ | |
future | couterai /ku.tʁe/ |
couteras /ku.tʁa/ |
coutera /ku.tʁa/ |
couterons /ku.tʁɔ̃/ |
couterez /ku.tʁe/ |
couteront /ku.tʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | couterais /ku.tʁɛ/ |
couterais /ku.tʁɛ/ |
couterait /ku.tʁɛ/ |
couterions /ku.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
couteriez /ku.tə.ʁje/ |
couteraient /ku.tʁɛ/ | |
(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 | coute /kut/ |
coutes /kut/ |
coute /kut/ |
coutions /ku.tjɔ̃/ |
coutiez /ku.tje/ |
coutent /kut/ |
imperfect2 | coutasse /ku.tas/ |
coutasses /ku.tas/ |
coutât /ku.ta/ |
coutassions /ku.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
coutassiez /ku.ta.sje/ |
coutassent /ku.tas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | coute /kut/ |
— | coutons /ku.tɔ̃/ |
coutez /ku.te/ |
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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:
(Christopher Kendris , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |