coupler
English
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.
French
Etymology
From Latin cōpulāre, present active infinitive of cōpulō. Doublet of the borrowed copuler.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ku.ple/
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Conjugation
Conjugation of coupler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | couplant /ku.plɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | couplé /ku.ple/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | coupler | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | couplant /ku.plɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | 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 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “coupler” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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