troubler
English
Noun
troubler (plural troublers)
- One who, or that which, troubles; a disturber.
- 1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica:
- They are the troublers, they are the dividers of unity, who neglect and permit not others to unite those dissever'd peeces which are yet wanting to the body of Truth.
- 1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica:
French
Etymology
From Old French trobler, trubler, with metathesis from torbler, tourbler, turbler, from Vulgar Latin *turbulāre, present active infinitive of *turbulō, itself either from Latin turbō or from turbula, diminutive of turba. Compare Occitan trebolar, Romanian tulbura.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʁu.ble/
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Verb
troubler
Conjugation
Conjugation of troubler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | troublant /tʁu.blɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | troublé /tʁu.ble/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | troubler | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | troublant /tʁu.blɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | trouble /tʁubl/ |
troubles /tʁubl/ |
trouble /tʁubl/ |
troublons /tʁu.blɔ̃/ |
troublez /tʁu.ble/ |
troublent /tʁubl/ |
| imperfect | troublais /tʁu.blɛ/ |
troublais /tʁu.blɛ/ |
troublait /tʁu.blɛ/ |
troublions /tʁu.bli.jɔ̃/ |
troubliez /tʁu.bli.je/ |
troublaient /tʁu.blɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | troublai /tʁu.ble/ |
troublas /tʁu.bla/ |
troubla /tʁu.bla/ |
troublâmes /tʁu.blam/ |
troublâtes /tʁu.blat/ |
troublèrent /tʁu.blɛʁ/ | |
| future | troublerai /tʁu.blə.ʁe/ |
troubleras /tʁu.blə.ʁa/ |
troublera /tʁu.blə.ʁa/ |
troublerons /tʁu.blə.ʁɔ̃/ |
troublerez /tʁu.blə.ʁe/ |
troubleront /tʁu.blə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | troublerais /tʁu.blə.ʁɛ/ |
troublerais /tʁu.blə.ʁɛ/ |
troublerait /tʁu.blə.ʁɛ/ |
troublerions /tʁu.blə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
troubleriez /tʁu.blə.ʁje/ |
troubleraient /tʁu.blə.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | trouble /tʁubl/ |
troubles /tʁubl/ |
trouble /tʁubl/ |
troublions /tʁu.bli.jɔ̃/ |
troubliez /tʁu.bli.je/ |
troublent /tʁubl/ |
| imperfect2 | troublasse /tʁu.blas/ |
troublasses /tʁu.blas/ |
troublât /tʁu.bla/ |
troublassions /tʁu.bla.sjɔ̃/ |
troublassiez /tʁu.bla.sje/ |
troublassent /tʁu.blas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | trouble /tʁubl/ |
— | troublons /tʁu.blɔ̃/ |
troublez /tʁu.ble/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “troubler” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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