coupler
English
Etymology
From couple + -er.
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.
Derived terms
- acoustic coupler
- Janney coupler
Translations
anything that couples things together
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French
Etymology
From Latin cōpulāre, present active infinitive of cōpulō. Doublet of the borrowed copuler.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ku.ple/
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Verb
coupler
- (transitive) to couple
Conjugation
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 | – | – | – | ||||
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
- accoupler
- couplage
- couplement
- coupleur
- découpler
Further reading
- “coupler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.