disturber

English

Etymology

disturb +‎ -er

Noun

disturber (plural disturbers)

1. Someone or something that disturbs; a disrupter.

Derived terms

• shit disturber

Anagrams

• redisturb

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin disturbāre (“disturb; demolish, destroy”), possibly reinforced partly by English disturb. Compare the inherited Old French destorber.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dis.tyʁ.be/

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• Homophones: disturbé, disturbée, disturbées, disturbés

Verb

disturber

1. (rare) to disturb

Conjugation

Conjugation of disturber (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	disturber
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	disturbant /dis.tyʁ.bɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		disturbé /dis.tyʁ.be/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	disturbe /dis.tyʁb/	disturbes /dis.tyʁb/	disturbe /dis.tyʁb/	disturbons /dis.tyʁ.bɔ̃/	disturbez /dis.tyʁ.be/	disturbent /dis.tyʁb/
	imperfect	disturbais /dis.tyʁ.bɛ/	disturbais /dis.tyʁ.bɛ/	disturbait /dis.tyʁ.bɛ/	disturbions /dis.tyʁ.bjɔ̃/	disturbiez /dis.tyʁ.bje/	disturbaient /dis.tyʁ.bɛ/
	past historic2	disturbai /dis.tyʁ.be/	disturbas /dis.tyʁ.ba/	disturba /dis.tyʁ.ba/	disturbâmes /dis.tyʁ.bam/	disturbâtes /dis.tyʁ.bat/	disturbèrent /dis.tyʁ.bɛʁ/
	future	disturberai /dis.tyʁ.bə.ʁe/	disturberas /dis.tyʁ.bə.ʁa/	disturbera /dis.tyʁ.bə.ʁa/	disturberons /dis.tyʁ.bə.ʁɔ̃/	disturberez /dis.tyʁ.bə.ʁe/	disturberont /dis.tyʁ.bə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	disturberais /dis.tyʁ.bə.ʁɛ/	disturberais /dis.tyʁ.bə.ʁɛ/	disturberait /dis.tyʁ.bə.ʁɛ/	disturberions /dis.tyʁ.bə.ʁjɔ̃/	disturberiez /dis.tyʁ.bə.ʁje/	disturberaient /dis.tyʁ.bə.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	disturbe /dis.tyʁb/	disturbes /dis.tyʁb/	disturbe /dis.tyʁb/	disturbions /dis.tyʁ.bjɔ̃/	disturbiez /dis.tyʁ.bje/	disturbent /dis.tyʁb/
	imperfect2	disturbasse /dis.tyʁ.bas/	disturbasses /dis.tyʁ.bas/	disturbât /dis.tyʁ.ba/	disturbassions /dis.tyʁ.ba.sjɔ̃/	disturbassiez /dis.tyʁ.ba.sje/	disturbassent /dis.tyʁ.bas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	disturbe /dis.tyʁb/	—	disturbons /dis.tyʁ.bɔ̃/	disturbez /dis.tyʁ.be/	—
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).

Further reading

• “disturber”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Verb

disturber

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of disturbō