coupler
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]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.
- Synonym: coupling
- (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.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]anything that couples things together
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin cōpulāre. Doublet of the borrowed copuler.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]coupler
- (transitive) to couple
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of coupler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | coupler | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | couplant /ku.plɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | couplé /ku.ple/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(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 historic2 | 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 | 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 | couple /kupl/ |
couples /kupl/ |
couple /kupl/ |
couplions /ku.pli.jɔ̃/ |
coupliez /ku.pli.je/ |
couplent /kupl/ |
imperfect2 | couplasse /ku.plas/ |
couplasses /ku.plas/ |
couplât /ku.pla/ |
couplassions /ku.pla.sjɔ̃/ |
couplassiez /ku.pla.sje/ |
couplassent /ku.plas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | couple /kupl/ |
— | couplons /ku.plɔ̃/ |
couplez /ku.ple/ |
— | |
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). |
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “coupler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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