Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to coo
Participle: cooed
Gerund: cooing
Indicative
Present
| I | coo |
| you | coo |
| he;she;it | cooes |
| we | coo |
| you | coo |
| they | coo |
Perfect
| I | have cooed |
| you | have cooed |
| he;she;it | has cooed |
| we | have cooed |
| you | have cooed |
| they | have cooed |
Past
| I | cooed |
| you | cooed |
| he;she;it | cooed |
| we | cooed |
| you | cooed |
| they | cooed |
Pluperfect
| I | had cooed |
| you | had cooed |
| he;she;it | had cooed |
| we | had cooed |
| you | had cooed |
| they | had cooed |
Future
| I | will coo |
| you | will coo |
| he;she;it | will coo |
| we | will coo |
| you | will coo |
| they | will coo |
Future Perfect
| I | will have cooed |
| you | will have cooed |
| he;she;it | will have cooed |
| we | will have cooed |
| you | will have cooed |
| they | will have cooed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | coo |
| you | coo |
| he;she;it | coo |
| we | coo |
| you | coo |
| they | coo |
Perfect
| I | have cooed |
| you | have cooed |
| he;she;it | have cooed |
| we | have cooed |
| you | have cooed |
| they | have cooed |
Imperfect
| I | cooed |
| you | cooed |
| he;she;it | cooed |
| we | cooed |
| you | cooed |
| they | cooed |
Pluperfect
| I | had cooed |
| you | had cooed |
| he;she;it | had cooed |
| we | had cooed |
| you | had cooed |
| they | had cooed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would coo |
| you | would coo |
| he;she;it | would coo |
| we | would coo |
| you | would coo |
| they | would coo |
Perfect
| I | would have cooed |
| you | would have cooed |
| he;she;it | would have cooed |
| we | would have cooed |
| you | would have cooed |
| they | would have cooed |
Imperative
| you | coo |
| we | Let's coo |
| you | coo |
Verbs conjugated like 'coo'
abash,
abolish,
abroach,
accomplish,
accroach,
address,
admix,
admonish,
ado,
adpress,
affamish,
affix,
alloo,
amass,
ambush,
anguish,
annex,
appeach,
appears,
approach, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'coo'
boo,
cob,
cod,
cog,
con,
cook,
cool,
coom,
coon,
coop,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Onomatopoeic; compare Dutch koeren. See: Dutch '
koeren'.
Sample Sentences
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No birds, except as birds of paſſage, flew, / No bee was known to hum, no dove to coo. [1763, C[harles] Churchill, The Prophecy of Famine. A Scots Pastoral, 2nd edition, London: Printed for the author, and sold by G. Kearsly, in Ludgate-street, →OCLC, page 15:]
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DUET—MAYOR and MAUD. […] Like a Dove I'll coo and bill, pretty Maud, / I will not coo and bill, Mr. Mayor. [[1784?], [John] O'Keeffe, Songs, Duets, and Chorusses, in the New Musical Farce of Peeping Tom of Coventry. As Performed at the Theatre Royal, [London?]: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 4:]
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But oh! ſhall I, Misfortune's bondman, ſpeak / Of pleaſures and delights, where ſorrows ſhriek! / Can plaintive nightingale, or turte-dove, / When vultures tear them, ſing or coo of love? [1784, Voltaire, “Memoirs of Voltaire. Written by Himself. Part the Third”, in Memoirs of the Life of Voltaire. Written by Himself. Translated from the French, Dublin: Printed for Messrs. Moncrieffe, Walker, Exshaw, Wilson, Jenkin, Burton, White, Byrne, Marchbank, Cash, and Heery, →OCLC, page 176:]
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The black-bird and the speckled thrush / Good-morrow gave from brake and brush; / In answer cooed the cushat dove, / Her notes of peace, and rest, and love. [1810, Walter Scott, “Canto III. The Gathering.”, in The Lady of the Lake; […], Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for John Ballantyne and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller, →OCLC, stanza II, page 99:]
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Then did her soft breath stop and she lay still, her eyes yet open and smiling at the blossoms and the doves who sat upon the window-ledge and lowly cooed and cooed. [1896, Frances Hodgson Burnett, “The Doves Sat upon the Window-ledge and Lowly Cooed and Cooed”, in A Lady of Quality: Being a Most Curious, hitherto Unknown History, as Related by Mr. Isaac Bickerstaff but Not Presented to the World of Fashion through the Pages of The Tatler, and Now for the First Time Written Down, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, →OCLC, page 360:]
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As Norah Jones coos sweet nothings on the soundtrack, the happy couple—played by Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler—canoodle through a Manhattan montage, making pasta for two, swimming through a pile of autumn leaves, and horsing around at a fruit stand. [2014 June 26, A. A Dowd, “Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler spoof rom-com clichés in They Came Together”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 27 Nov 2017:]
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They were too busy cooing over the baby and his parents were too busy cooing over each other. [2013, Nicola Cornick, chapter 14, in One Night with the Laird (Harlequin HQN Historical Romance), Don Mills, Ont.: Harlequin HQN, →ISBN:]