commuter
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kəˈmjuːtɚ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -uːtə(ɹ)
Noun
commuter (plural commuters)
- One who commutes (etymology 1).
- (transport) A person who regularly travels between two places.
- (US, UK, Canada) To and from work and home.
- 2024 October 2, Philip Haigh, “Different types of passengers require different types of fare”, in RAIL, number 1019, page 54:
- How can an operator be, at the same time, top for overall satisfaction and bottom for value for money? I turned to Anthony Smith for the answer, leaning on his 20 years running Transport Focus and its predecessors.
It's commuters, he explained. "You can't please commuters, you can only not displease them."
- (Philippines) Using public transport.
- (US, UK, Canada) To and from work and home.
- (transport) Normally a short form of commuter rail, commuter train or commuter bus; A transport system or a vehicle in such systems used to transport commuters (#2)
- He takes the commuter to headquarters at least once a week.
Derived terms
Translations
a person who regularly travels to and from work and home
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See also
- commuting (noun)
French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin commūtāre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ.my.te/
Audio: (file)
Verb
commuter
- (mathematics) to commute
- (electronics) to switch
Conjugation
Conjugation of commuter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | commuter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | commutant /kɔ.my.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | commuté /kɔ.my.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | commute /kɔ.myt/ |
commutes /kɔ.myt/ |
commute /kɔ.myt/ |
commutons /kɔ.my.tɔ̃/ |
commutez /kɔ.my.te/ |
commutent /kɔ.myt/ |
| imperfect | commutais /kɔ.my.tɛ/ |
commutais /kɔ.my.tɛ/ |
commutait /kɔ.my.tɛ/ |
commutions /kɔ.my.tjɔ̃/ |
commutiez /kɔ.my.tje/ |
commutaient /kɔ.my.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | commutai /kɔ.my.te/ |
commutas /kɔ.my.ta/ |
commuta /kɔ.my.ta/ |
commutâmes /kɔ.my.tam/ |
commutâtes /kɔ.my.tat/ |
commutèrent /kɔ.my.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | commuterai /kɔ.my.tʁe/ |
commuteras /kɔ.my.tʁa/ |
commutera /kɔ.my.tʁa/ |
commuterons /kɔ.my.tʁɔ̃/ |
commuterez /kɔ.my.tʁe/ |
commuteront /kɔ.my.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | commuterais /kɔ.my.tʁɛ/ |
commuterais /kɔ.my.tʁɛ/ |
commuterait /kɔ.my.tʁɛ/ |
commuterions /kɔ.my.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
commuteriez /kɔ.my.tə.ʁje/ |
commuteraient /kɔ.my.tʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | commute /kɔ.myt/ |
commutes /kɔ.myt/ |
commute /kɔ.myt/ |
commutions /kɔ.my.tjɔ̃/ |
commutiez /kɔ.my.tje/ |
commutent /kɔ.myt/ |
| imperfect2 | commutasse /kɔ.my.tas/ |
commutasses /kɔ.my.tas/ |
commutât /kɔ.my.ta/ |
commutassions /kɔ.my.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
commutassiez /kɔ.my.ta.sje/ |
commutassent /kɔ.my.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | commute /kɔ.myt/ |
— | commutons /kɔ.my.tɔ̃/ |
commutez /kɔ.my.te/ |
— | |
| 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
Further reading
- “commuter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Verb
commūter
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of commūtō