coger
French, verb/kɔ.ʒe/
coger is spelled C-O-G-E-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 91 million words in written French, the 298,135th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Coger is a French verb meaning “to punish” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Punir”.
What does coger mean in English?
verb
- 1
colloquialto punish
- 2
colloquialto force someone to do something
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Punir. 2. Obliger à faire quelque 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 coger
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- cogeant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- cogé participle past
- coge first-person indicative present
- coges indicative present second-person
- cogeons first-person indicative plural
- cogez indicative plural present
- cogent indicative plural present
- cogeais first-person imperfect indicative
- cogeait imperfect indicative singular
- cogions first-person imperfect indicative
- cogiez imperfect indicative plural
- cogeaient imperfect indicative plural
- cogeai first-person historic indicative
- cogeas historic indicative past
- cogea historic indicative past
- cogeâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce coger?
- /kɔ.ʒe/
- \kɔ.ʒe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is coger in French?
coger appears about once in every 91 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).