Conçues

Conçues is the feminine plural form of the French past participle conçu, which derives from the verb concevoir (to conceive, to design, to devise). In its passive or adjectival use, conçues qualifies feminine plural nouns and agrees in gender and number with them, as in les idées conçues (“the conceived ideas”) or des stratégies conçues (“designed strategies”). When combined with the auxiliary verb être, it forms the compound past tense for feminine subjects, for example elles ont été conçues (“they were conceived/designed”).

Grammatically, conçues functions as a participle adjective and can be placed before or after the noun it modifies, though post‑nominal placement is more common in formal French. The word also appears in idiomatic expressions such as une œuvre conçue pour durer (“a work designed to last”) and in technical contexts, notably in engineering and design discourse, where it denotes objects or systems that have been purposefully created.

In literary usage, conçues may convey a sense of intentionality or foresight, contrasting with spontaneous or accidental creation. Its masculine counterpart is conçus, and the singular forms are conçue (feminine) and conçu (masculine). The verb concevoir belongs to the third group of French verbs, and its past participle follows regular formation rules: concevoir → conçu, with the appropriate gender and number agreement applied in context.