cogner
French, verb/kɔ.ɲe/
cogner is spelled C-O-G-N-E-R (6 letters) and appears 2.1 times per million words in written French, the 20,080th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cogner is a French verb meaning “to whack, to bash, to thump (hit hard)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Frapper fort sur une chose pour la faire entrer ou pour la faire joindre avec une autre”.
What does cogner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to whack, to bash, to thump (hit hard)
- 2
to pound (of the heart)
- 3
to bump oneself
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Frapper fort sur une chose pour la faire entrer ou pour la faire joindre avec une autre. 2. Frapper avec violence. 3. Sentir mauvais ; puer.
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 cogner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- cognant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- cogné participle past
- cogne first-person indicative present
- cognes indicative present second-person
- cognons first-person indicative plural
- cognez indicative plural present
- cognent indicative plural present
- cognais first-person imperfect indicative
- cognait imperfect indicative singular
- cognions first-person imperfect indicative
- cogniez imperfect indicative plural
- cognaient imperfect indicative plural
- cognai first-person historic indicative
- cognas historic indicative past
- cogna historic indicative past
- cognâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cogner?
- /kɔ.ɲe/
- \kɔ.ɲe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cogner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cogner in French?
cogner appears 2.1 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).