troubler
English
Noun
troubler (plural troublers)
- One who, or that which, troubles; a disturber.
- 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica:
- 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, Areopagitica:
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)
| infinitive | simple | troubler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | troublant /tʁu.blɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | troublé /tʁu.ble/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | 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 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “troubler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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