coupler
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkʌplə/
Noun
coupler (plural couplers)
- (now rare) Someone who couples things together, especially someone whose job it is to couple railway carriages.
- Anything that serves to couple things together; but especially a device that couples railway carriages.
- (music) A device that connects two keyboards of an organ together so that they play together.
- A device used to convert electronic information into audible sound signals for transmission over telephone lines.
- An electrical device used to transfer energy from one electric device to another, especially without a physical connection.
Translations
anything that couples things together
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French
Etymology
From Latin cōpulāre, present active infinitive of cōpulō. Doublet of the borrowed copuler.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ku.ple/
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Verb
coupler
- to couple
Conjugation
Conjugation of coupler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | coupler | avoir couplé | |||||
| gerund | en couplant | en ayant couplé | |||||
| present participle | couplant /ku.plɑ̃/ | ||||||
| past participle | couplé /ku.ple/ | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | couple /kupl/ |
couples /kupl/ |
couple /kupl/ |
couplons /ku.plɔ̃/ |
couplez /ku.ple/ |
couplent /kupl/ |
| imperfect | couplais /ku.plɛ/ |
couplais /ku.plɛ/ |
couplait /ku.plɛ/ |
couplions /ku.pli.jɔ̃/ |
coupliez /ku.pli.je/ |
couplaient /ku.plɛ/ | |
| past historic1 | couplai /ku.ple/ |
couplas /ku.pla/ |
coupla /ku.pla/ |
couplâmes /ku.plam/ |
couplâtes /ku.plat/ |
couplèrent /ku.plɛʁ/ | |
| future | couplerai /ku.plə.ʁe/ |
coupleras /ku.plə.ʁa/ |
couplera /ku.plə.ʁa/ |
couplerons /ku.plə.ʁɔ̃/ |
couplerez /ku.plə.ʁe/ |
coupleront /ku.plə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | couplerais /ku.plə.ʁɛ/ |
couplerais /ku.plə.ʁɛ/ |
couplerait /ku.plə.ʁɛ/ |
couplerions /ku.plə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
coupleriez /ku.plə.ʁje/ |
coupleraient /ku.plə.ʁɛ/ | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | couple /kupl/ |
couples /kupl/ |
couple /kupl/ |
couplions /ku.pli.jɔ̃/ |
coupliez /ku.pli.je/ |
couplent /kupl/ |
| imperfect1 | couplasse /ku.plas/ |
couplasses /ku.plas/ |
couplât /ku.pla/ |
couplassions /ku.pla.sjɔ̃/ |
couplassiez /ku.pla.sje/ |
couplassent /ku.plas/ | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | couple /kupl/ |
— | couplons /ku.plɔ̃/ |
couplez /ku.ple/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “coupler” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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