commuter

English

Etymology

commute +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uːtə(r)

Noun

commuter (plural commuters)

1. One that commutes (etymology 1)
2. A person who regularly travels from one place to another, typically to work.
3. (US, informal) A piece of transportation equipment used for the transportation of such persons.

   He takes the commuter to headquarters at least once a week.

Derived terms

Terms derived from commuter

• commuter belt
• commuter bus
• commuterliner
• commuter marriage
• commuter rail

• cybercommuter
• noncommuter
• reverse commuter
• supercommuter

Translations

a person who regularly travels to work

• Dutch: forens (nl), pendelaar (nl) m
• Finnish: työmatkalainen
• French: navetteur (fr) m, pendulaire (fr) m, f
• German: Pendler (de) m
• Hungarian: ingázó
• Italian: pendolare (it) m, f

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pendler m

  Nynorsk: pendlar m

• Serbo-Croatian: dnevni cirkulant, cirkulant m
• Spanish: viajero diario m, trabajador pendular m, migrante pendular m, viajero pendular m, cercanista m, f
• Swedish: pendlare (sv) c

Adjective

commuter (not comparable)

1. Typically of an aircraft, train etc., designed for use by commuters.

See also

• commuting

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French

Etymology

From Latin commūtō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.my.te/

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Verb

commuter

1. (mathematics) to commute
2. (electronics) to switch

Conjugation

Conjugation of commuter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		commuter			avoir + past participle
gerund		en commutant			en ayant + past participle
present participle		commutant /kɔ.my.tɑ̃/
past participle		commuté /kɔ.my.te/
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
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 historic1	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 anterior1	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	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	commute /kɔ.myt/	commutes /kɔ.myt/	commute /kɔ.myt/	commutions /kɔ.my.tjɔ̃/	commutiez /kɔ.my.tje/	commutent /kɔ.myt/
	imperfect1	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
	pluperfect1	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
present		—	commute /kɔ.myt/	—	commutons /kɔ.my.tɔ̃/	commutez /kɔ.my.te/	—
past		—	present imperative of avoir + past participle2	—	present imperative of avoir + past participle2	present imperative of avoir + past participle2	—
1 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).
2 Trudie Maria Booth (2005), French Verbs and Idioms, p. 88.

Further reading

• “commuter” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Latin

Verb

commūter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of commūtō