coucher

English

Noun

coucher (plural couchers)

1. One who couches.
2. (papermaking) One who couches paper.
3. (UK, law, obsolete) A factor or agent resident in a country for traffic.

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4. The book in which a corporation or other body registers its particular acts.

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French

Etymology

From Old French couchier, from Latin collocāre, present active infinitive of collocō (“place, put, assemble”).

Pronunciation

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Verb

coucher

1. (transitive) to lay, to lay down
2. (transitive) to put to bed, to put up (a lodger)
3. (transitive, agriculture) to lodge, to beat down (wheat)
4. (transitive) to layer (branches)
5. (transitive) to slant (writing)
6. (transitive, military) to aim at
7. (intransitive) to sleep
   • 1785, Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, Les 120 journées de Sodome, ou l'École du libertinage

     Le soir, Michette est livrée en cul. Durcet prend la Martaine pour coucher dans sa chambre, à l'exemple du duc qui a Duclos et de Curval qui a Fanchon; cette fille prend sur lui le même empire lubrique que Duclos sur le duc.

8. (intransitive) to spend the night
9. (intransitive) to lodge
10. (intransitive) to pack off to bed

    coucher avec — to sleep with

Derived terms

• Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?

Conjugation

   Conjugation of coucher (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		coucher			avoir couché
gerund		en couchant			en ayant couché
present participle		couchant
past participle		couché
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	couche	couches	couche	couchons	couchez	couchent
	imperfect	couchais	couchais	couchait	couchions	couchiez	couchaient
	past historic1	couchai	couchas	coucha	couchâmes	couchâtes	couchèrent
	future	coucherai	coucheras	couchera	coucherons	coucherez	coucheront
	conditional	coucherais	coucherais	coucherait	coucherions	coucheriez	coucheraient
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 anterior1	Use the past historic 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 je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	couche	couches	couche	couchions	couchiez	couchent
	imperfect1	couchasse	couchasses	couchât	couchassions	couchassiez	couchassent
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	couche	—	couchons	couchez	—
1literary tenses

Noun

coucher m (plural couchers)

1. going to bed
2. bedding
3. room and board
4. setting (sun)

   coucher de soleil — sunset, sundown