perturber

English

Etymology

perturb +‎ -er

Noun

perturber (plural perturbers)

1. One who or that which perturbs.
   • 1836, George Payne Rainsford James, Lives of the Most Eminent Foreign Statesmen:

     The queen forgot the dignity of her station and the softness of her sex, and, in language more fit for the markets than the court, called him rogue, and traitor, and perturber of the public peace; […]

2. (physics) A source of perturbation.

   This moon is a significant perturber.

Related terms

• perturb
• perturbation

Anagrams

• reperturb

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin perturbāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛʁ.tyʁ.be/

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Verb

perturber

1. (transitive) to disrupt, to disturb
2. (transitive) to throw off, to fluster

Conjugation

Conjugation of perturber (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	perturber
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	perturbant /pɛʁ.tyʁ.bɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		perturbé /pɛʁ.tyʁ.be/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	perturbe /pɛʁ.tyʁb/	perturbes /pɛʁ.tyʁb/	perturbe /pɛʁ.tyʁb/	perturbons /pɛʁ.tyʁ.bɔ̃/	perturbez /pɛʁ.tyʁ.be/	perturbent /pɛʁ.tyʁb/
	imperfect	perturbais /pɛʁ.tyʁ.bɛ/	perturbais /pɛʁ.tyʁ.bɛ/	perturbait /pɛʁ.tyʁ.bɛ/	perturbions /pɛʁ.tyʁ.bjɔ̃/	perturbiez /pɛʁ.tyʁ.bje/	perturbaient /pɛʁ.tyʁ.bɛ/
	past historic2	perturbai /pɛʁ.tyʁ.be/	perturbas /pɛʁ.tyʁ.ba/	perturba /pɛʁ.tyʁ.ba/	perturbâmes /pɛʁ.tyʁ.bam/	perturbâtes /pɛʁ.tyʁ.bat/	perturbèrent /pɛʁ.tyʁ.bɛʁ/
	future	perturberai /pɛʁ.tyʁ.bə.ʁe/	perturberas /pɛʁ.tyʁ.bə.ʁa/	perturbera /pɛʁ.tyʁ.bə.ʁa/	perturberons /pɛʁ.tyʁ.bə.ʁɔ̃/	perturberez /pɛʁ.tyʁ.bə.ʁe/	perturberont /pɛʁ.tyʁ.bə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	perturberais /pɛʁ.tyʁ.bə.ʁɛ/	perturberais /pɛʁ.tyʁ.bə.ʁɛ/	perturberait /pɛʁ.tyʁ.bə.ʁɛ/	perturberions /pɛʁ.tyʁ.bə.ʁjɔ̃/	perturberiez /pɛʁ.tyʁ.bə.ʁje/	perturberaient /pɛʁ.tyʁ.bə.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	perturbe /pɛʁ.tyʁb/	perturbes /pɛʁ.tyʁb/	perturbe /pɛʁ.tyʁb/	perturbions /pɛʁ.tyʁ.bjɔ̃/	perturbiez /pɛʁ.tyʁ.bje/	perturbent /pɛʁ.tyʁb/
	imperfect2	perturbasse /pɛʁ.tyʁ.bas/	perturbasses /pɛʁ.tyʁ.bas/	perturbât /pɛʁ.tyʁ.ba/	perturbassions /pɛʁ.tyʁ.ba.sjɔ̃/	perturbassiez /pɛʁ.tyʁ.ba.sje/	perturbassent /pɛʁ.tyʁ.bas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	perturbe /pɛʁ.tyʁb/	—	perturbons /pɛʁ.tyʁ.bɔ̃/	perturbez /pɛʁ.tyʁ.be/	—
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “perturber”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Verb

perturber

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of perturbō