cohabiter
French, verb/kɔ.a.bi.te/
cohabiter is spelled C-O-H-A-B-I-T-E-R (9 letters) and appears 1.5 times per million words in written French, the 24,143rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cohabiter is a French verb meaning “to cohabit, to live together” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Habiter avec un ou plusieurs autres”.
What does cohabiter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cohabit, to live together
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Habiter avec un ou plusieurs autres. 2. Vivre ensemble comme mari et femme. 3. Vivre dans les mêmes lieux. 4. Être présent simultanément.
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 cohabiter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- cohabitant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- cohabité participle past
- cohabite first-person indicative present
- cohabites indicative present second-person
- cohabitons first-person indicative plural
- cohabitez indicative plural present
- cohabitent indicative plural present
- cohabitais first-person imperfect indicative
- cohabitait imperfect indicative singular
- cohabitions first-person imperfect indicative
- cohabitiez imperfect indicative plural
- cohabitaient imperfect indicative plural
- cohabitai first-person historic indicative
- cohabitas historic indicative past
- cohabita historic indicative past
- cohabitâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cohabiter?
- /kɔ.a.bi.te/
- \kɔ.a.bi.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cohabiter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cohabiter in French?
cohabiter appears 1.5 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).