troubler

English

Etymology

From trouble +‎ -er.

Noun

troubler (plural troublers)

1. 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

one who vexes

• Latin: vexātor m

French

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /tʁu.ble/

• Audio:

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Verb

troubler

1. to disturb, disrupt (order, sleep, judgement etc.)
2. to disturb, to trouble (someone)
3. (reflexive) to cloud, become cloudy (of water); to become cloudy, become overcast (of sky)
4. (reflexive) to become flustered

Conjugation

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		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
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: 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

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