troubler
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
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.
Translations edit
one who vexes
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French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French trobler, trubler, with metathesis from torbler, tourbler, turbler, from Vulgar Latin *turbulāre, itself either from Latin turbāre or from turbula, diminutive of turba. Compare Occitan trebolar, Romanian tulbura.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
troubler
- to disturb, disrupt (order, sleep, judgement etc.)
- to disturb, to trouble (someone)
- (reflexive) to cloud, become cloudy (of water); to become cloudy, become overcast (of sky)
- (reflexive) to become flustered
Conjugation edit
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 edit
- “troubler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.