commuter

English

Etymology

commute +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈmjuːtɚ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -uːtə(ɹ)

Noun

commuter (plural commuters)

1. One who commutes (etymology 1).
2. (transport) A person who regularly travels between two places.
   1. (US, UK, Canada) To and from work and home.
   2. (Philippines) Using public transport.
3. (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

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

 

Translations

a person who regularly travels to and from work and home

• 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

• Polish: dojeżdżający 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

transport system or vehicle in such systems

• Swedish: pendel (sv)

See also

• commuting (noun)

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin commūtāre.

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, 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		–	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 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).

Derived terms

• commutation
• commutatif

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

commūter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of commūtō