couchier
Norman
Alternative forms
- couochi
Etymology
From Old French couchier, from Latin collocāre (“set in place”).
Verb
couchier
- (Guernsey) to go to bed
Old French
Alternative forms
- colchier, coucher, culcher, culchier, cucher
Etymology
From Latin collocāre.
Verb
couchier
- lay down
- (reflexive, se couchier) go to bed
- (by extension) have sex
Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -ier, with a palatal stem. These verbs are conjugated mostly like verbs in -er, but there is an extra i before the e of some endings. In the present tense an extra supporting e is needed in the first-person singular indicative and throughout the singular subjunctive, and the third-person singular subjunctive ending -t is lost. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
Conjugation of couchier (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | couchier | avoir couchié | |||||
| gerund | en couchant | Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| present participle | couchant | ||||||
| past participle | couchié | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
| simple tenses | present | couche | couches | couche | couchons | couchiez | couchent |
| imperfect | couchoie, coucheie, couchoe, couchieve | couchoies, coucheies, couchoes, couchieves | couchoit, coucheit, couchot, couchieve | couchiiens, couchiens | couchiiez, couchiez | couchoient, coucheient, couchoent, couchievent | |
| preterite | couchai | couchas | coucha | couchames | couchastes | couchierent | |
| future | coucherai | coucheras | couchera | coucherons | coucheroiz, couchereiz, coucherez | coucheront | |
| conditional | coucheroie, couchereie | coucheroies, couchereies | coucheroit, couchereit | coucheriiens, coucheriens | coucheriiez, coucheriez | coucheroient, couchereient | |
| compound tenses | present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | Use the preterite tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
| simple tenses | present | couche | couches | couche | couchons | couchiez | couchent |
| imperfect | couchasse | couchasses | couchast | couchissons, couchissiens | couchissoiz, couchissez, couchissiez | couchassent | |
| compound tenses | past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
| — | couche | — | couchons | couchiez | — | ||
Descendants
- Middle French: couchier, coucher
- French: coucher
- Norman: couochi (Jersey)
- Middle English: couchen, chouchen, cowchyn, kouchen, couche, cowche
- English: couch
- Scots: cooch, cootch
Noun
couchier m (oblique plural couchiers, nominative singular couchiers, nominative plural couchier)
- bedtime (point at which one goes to bed)