coter

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin quotare, from Latin quot (“how many”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.te/

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• Homophones: coté, koter

Verb

coter

1. (finance) to quote, list
2. to quote the market price of; to put odds on
3. to mark (UK), grade (US)
4. to rate (a film etc.)

Conjugation

Conjugation of coter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	coter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	cotant /kɔ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		coté /kɔ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	cote /kɔt/	cotes /kɔt/	cote /kɔt/	cotons /kɔ.tɔ̃/	cotez /kɔ.te/	cotent /kɔt/
	imperfect	cotais /kɔ.tɛ/	cotais /kɔ.tɛ/	cotait /kɔ.tɛ/	cotions /kɔ.tjɔ̃/	cotiez /kɔ.tje/	cotaient /kɔ.tɛ/
	past historic2	cotai /kɔ.te/	cotas /kɔ.ta/	cota /kɔ.ta/	cotâmes /kɔ.tam/	cotâtes /kɔ.tat/	cotèrent /kɔ.tɛʁ/
	future	coterai /kɔ.tʁe/	coteras /kɔ.tʁa/	cotera /kɔ.tʁa/	coterons /kɔ.tʁɔ̃/	coterez /kɔ.tʁe/	coteront /kɔ.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	coterais /kɔ.tʁɛ/	coterais /kɔ.tʁɛ/	coterait /kɔ.tʁɛ/	coterions /kɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	coteriez /kɔ.tə.ʁje/	coteraient /kɔ.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	cote /kɔt/	cotes /kɔt/	cote /kɔt/	cotions /kɔ.tjɔ̃/	cotiez /kɔ.tje/	cotent /kɔt/
	imperfect2	cotasse /kɔ.tas/	cotasses /kɔ.tas/	cotât /kɔ.ta/	cotassions /kɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/	cotassiez /kɔ.ta.sje/	cotassent /kɔ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	cote /kɔt/	—	cotons /kɔ.tɔ̃/	cotez /kɔ.te/	—
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

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