doubler
English
Noun
doubler (plural doublers)
- One who doubles.
- An instrument for augmenting a very small quantity of electricity, so as to render it manifest by sparks or the electroscope.
- (US, dialectal) A tenement house having two families on each floor.
- (colloquial) A biplane aeroplane or kite.
- Part of a distilling apparatus for intercepting the heavier fractions and returning them to be redistilled.
- (calico printing) A blanket or felt placed between the fabric and the printing table or cylinder.
- A person employed in a roller mill to fold the hot metal plates in half.
French
Etymology
From Old French dobler, from Late Latin dūplāre, present active infinitive of dūplō, from Latin dūplus. Compare Spanish and Catalan doblar, Portuguese dobrar, Italian doppiare.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /du.ble/
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Verb
doubler
- to double, duplicate
- A cet instant précis, il a décidé de doubler la mise.
- to double-cross
- Nous avons été doublé ce coup-ci.
- to overtake, pass
- Sur l'autoroute, nous avons eu l'occasion de doubler de nombreux véhicules.
- to dub
- Daniel Beretta qui double Arnold Schwarzenegger en français depuis 1987 a également prêté sa voix à l'agent Sam Fisher.
- (Belgium) to repeat a school year
- Synonym: redoubler
Conjugation
Conjugation of doubler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | doublant /du.blɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | doublé /du.ble/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | doubler | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | doublant /du.blɑ̃/ | ||||||
| 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 | double /dubl/ |
doubles /dubl/ |
double /dubl/ |
doublons /du.blɔ̃/ |
doublez /du.ble/ |
doublent /dubl/ |
| imperfect | doublais /du.blɛ/ |
doublais /du.blɛ/ |
doublait /du.blɛ/ |
doublions /du.bli.jɔ̃/ |
doubliez /du.bli.je/ |
doublaient /du.blɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | doublai /du.ble/ |
doublas /du.bla/ |
doubla /du.bla/ |
doublâmes /du.blam/ |
doublâtes /du.blat/ |
doublèrent /du.blɛʁ/ | |
| future | doublerai /du.blə.ʁe/ |
doubleras /du.blə.ʁa/ |
doublera /du.blə.ʁa/ |
doublerons /du.blə.ʁɔ̃/ |
doublerez /du.blə.ʁe/ |
doubleront /du.blə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | doublerais /du.blə.ʁɛ/ |
doublerais /du.blə.ʁɛ/ |
doublerait /du.blə.ʁɛ/ |
doublerions /du.blə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
doubleriez /du.blə.ʁje/ |
doubleraient /du.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 | double /dubl/ |
doubles /dubl/ |
double /dubl/ |
doublions /du.bli.jɔ̃/ |
doubliez /du.bli.je/ |
doublent /dubl/ |
| imperfect2 | doublasse /du.blas/ |
doublasses /du.blas/ |
doublât /du.bla/ |
doublassions /du.bla.sjɔ̃/ |
doublassiez /du.bla.sje/ |
doublassent /du.blas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | double /dubl/ |
— | doublons /du.blɔ̃/ |
doublez /du.ble/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
See also
Further reading
- “doubler” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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