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[worldly horizon]

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[bronze bridge]

Yes, nouns have gender, couche is feminine

Couche comes from coucher, it seems like there's some kind of evolution like
Place where one "coucher" => bed
Time a woman is in a bed during childbirth
Giving birth
Item to preserve the bed from a child => diaper

But there are a lot of different usages for "couche" and "coucher" so it's hard to clearly link them all or know for sure how they all evolved

[last depot]

Thanks a bunch for the reply once again, admin. So actually the second one with an accent comes from the verb, not the noun, right? (coucher) That means it's not connected, at least in terms of how I see things.

👋

[bronze bridge]

The original word is coucher, which became both couche and couché

[last depot]

But I thought "couché" was a conjugation of "coucher", unlike "couche".

"couche" (Without an accent.) (diaper) is a noun, so it shouldn't be a conjugation of "coucher", as far as I'm concerned.

[bronze bridge]

It's not a conjugation, no
It can be the past participle, which is probably what you're thinking of, which is not a conjugation at least on its own
It can also be an adjective

[last depot]

I am not insisting, nor objecting to anything by the way. 👋

[rough adder]

Couche is also a conjugated form in indicative and subjunctive present tenses ((que) je couche and (qu')il/elle couche).

[last depot]

I see. I believe "couché" might be associated with a past-tense conjugation of "coucher".

[rough adder]

(And imperative, too.)

[bronze bridge]

Yeah, "couche" can be a conjugation of "coucher" but "couché" isn't on its own

[bronze bridge]

Yeah, the passé composé uses the past participle in its conjugation

[last depot]

So "couché" is actually a word? Not a conjugation of a verb?

[bronze bridge]

It can be an adjective, yes

[last depot]

Understood, thanks so much for the help. 🙏

[bronze bridge]

Or a past participle, which is more directly related to the verb

[last depot]

🙏🙏🙏

[rigid bough]

for reference, a lot of past participles are also adjectives in French.
for this reasons, sentences like "il est mort" can either be "he died" (passé composé) or "he is dead" (adjective)

that's because "mourir" uses "être" as auxiliary
most verbs use "avoir" as auxiliary, for instance "coucher"
"il est couché" would be "he is lying (down)" while "il a couché" would be "he had sex"

PS: "couche" is a diaper, but also means "layer"