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acoquiner

French, verb/a.kɔ.ki.ne/

acoquiner is a French verb meaning “to become familiar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Attacher par une habitude”.

What does acoquiner mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to become familiar

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Attacher par une habitude. 2. Avoir un lien avec quelqu'un de réputation douteuse, voire un coquin. 3. S’attacher à une personne, s’adonner à une chose.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of acoquiner

  • s'acoquiner infinitive
  • s'être + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
  • s'acoquinant gerund participle present
  • ayant gerund multiword-construction participle
  • étant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
  • acoquiné participle past
  • m'acoquine first-person indicative present
  • t'acoquines indicative present second-person
  • s'acoquine indicative present singular
  • nous acoquinons first-person indicative plural
  • vous acoquinez indicative plural present
  • s'acoquinent indicative plural present
  • m'acoquinais first-person imperfect indicative
  • t'acoquinais imperfect indicative second-person
  • s'acoquinait imperfect indicative singular
  • nous acoquinions first-person imperfect indicative
  • vous acoquiniez imperfect indicative plural
  • s'acoquinaient imperfect indicative plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce acoquiner?

  • /a.kɔ.ki.ne/
  • \a.kɔ.ki.ne\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is acoquiner in French?

acoquiner appears about once in every 19 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).