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

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/
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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).

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