troubler
English
Etymology
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, from Vulgar Latin *turbulāre (with metathesis), from Latin turbāre, present active infinitive of turbō. Compare Romanian tulbura.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʁu.ble/
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Verb
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
Conjugation of troubler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | troubler | avoir troublé | |||||
| gerund | en troublant | en ayant troublé | |||||
| present participle | troublant /tʁu.blɑ̃/ | ||||||
| past participle | troublé /tʁu.ble/ | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| 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 historic1 | 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 | 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 | trouble /tʁubl/ |
troubles /tʁubl/ |
trouble /tʁubl/ |
troublions /tʁu.bli.jɔ̃/ |
troubliez /tʁu.bli.je/ |
troublent /tʁubl/ |
| imperfect1 | troublasse /tʁu.blas/ |
troublasses /tʁu.blas/ |
troublât /tʁu.bla/ |
troublassions /tʁu.bla.sjɔ̃/ |
troublassiez /tʁu.bla.sje/ |
troublassent /tʁu.blas/ | |
| 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 | – | |
| — | trouble /tʁubl/ |
— | troublons /tʁu.blɔ̃/ |
troublez /tʁu.ble/ |
— | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Further reading
- “troubler” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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