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coupler

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English

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Etymology

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From couple +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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coupler (plural couplers)

  1. (now rare) Someone who couples things together, especially someone whose job it is to couple railway carriages.
  2. Anything that serves to couple things together; but especially a device that couples railway carriages.
    Synonym: coupling
  3. (music) A device that connects two keyboards of an organ together so that they play together.
  4. A device used to convert electronic information into audible sound signals for transmission over telephone lines.
  5. An electrical device used to transfer energy from one electric device to another, especially without a physical connection.

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French

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Etymology

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From Latin cōpulāre. Doublet of the borrowed copuler.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ku.ple/
  • Audio:(file)

Verb

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coupler

  1. (transitive) to couple

Conjugation

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Conjugation of coupler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple coupler
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 – tu – nous vous –
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:
  • 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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