commuter

English

Etymology

commute +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uːtə(r)

Noun

commuter (plural commuters)

1. One who 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

• commuter belt
• commuter bus
• commuterliner
• commuter marriage
• commuter rail
• cybercommuter
• noncommuter
• reverse commuter
• supercommuter
• telecommuter

 

Translations

a person who regularly travels to work

• Dutch: forens (nl), pendelaar (nl) m
• Finnish: työmatkalainen, pendelöijä
• French: navetteur (fr) m, pendulaire (fr) m or f
• German: Pendler (de) m
• Hungarian: ingázó (hu)
• Italian: pendolare (it) m or 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 or f
• Swedish: pendlare (sv) c

See also

• commuting (noun)

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French

Etymology

From Latin commūtō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.my.te/

• Audio

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Verb

commuter

1. (mathematics) to commute
2. (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	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		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
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 only usable with the 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).

Further reading

• “commuter” in 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