koter
Dutch
Etymology
From Yiddish קטן (koten, “small child”), from Hebrew קָטָן (qāṭān, “young, little”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkoː.tər/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: ko‧ter
- Rhymes: -oːtər
Noun
koter m (plural koters, diminutive kotertje n)
- (Netherlands) kid, child
Further reading
- van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “koter2”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
koter
- (Belgium) to live or stay in a student flat
Conjugation
Conjugation of koter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | koter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | kotant /kɔ.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | koté /kɔ.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | kote /kɔt/ |
kotes /kɔt/ |
kote /kɔt/ |
kotons /kɔ.tɔ̃/ |
kotez /kɔ.te/ |
kotent /kɔt/ |
| imperfect | kotais /kɔ.tɛ/ |
kotais /kɔ.tɛ/ |
kotait /kɔ.tɛ/ |
kotions /kɔ.tjɔ̃/ |
kotiez /kɔ.tje/ |
kotaient /kɔ.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | kotai /kɔ.te/ |
kotas /kɔ.ta/ |
kota /kɔ.ta/ |
kotâmes /kɔ.tam/ |
kotâtes /kɔ.tat/ |
kotèrent /kɔ.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | koterai /kɔ.tʁe/ |
koteras /kɔ.tʁa/ |
kotera /kɔ.tʁa/ |
koterons /kɔ.tʁɔ̃/ |
koterez /kɔ.tʁe/ |
koteront /kɔ.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | koterais /kɔ.tʁɛ/ |
koterais /kɔ.tʁɛ/ |
koterait /kɔ.tʁɛ/ |
koterions /kɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
koteriez /kɔ.tə.ʁje/ |
koteraient /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 | kote /kɔt/ |
kotes /kɔt/ |
kote /kɔt/ |
kotions /kɔ.tjɔ̃/ |
kotiez /kɔ.tje/ |
kotent /kɔt/ |
| imperfect2 | kotasse /kɔ.tas/ |
kotasses /kɔ.tas/ |
kotât /kɔ.ta/ |
kotassions /kɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
kotassiez /kɔ.ta.sje/ |
kotassent /kɔ.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | kote /kɔt/ |
— | kotons /kɔ.tɔ̃/ |
kotez /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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||