commuter

English

Etymology

From 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.
      • 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."

   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
• commuterdom
• commuterliner
• commuter marriage
• commuter rail
• commuter town
• cybercommuter
• megacommuter
• noncommuter
• reverse commuter
• supercommuter
• telecommuter
• uncommuted

 

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
• Romanian: navetist (ro)
• 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