couple
/ˈkʌp.əl/ verbe C1En français : coupler
- To join (two things) together, or (one thing) to (another). · Now the conductor will couple the train cars.· I've coupled our system to theirs.
- To join in wedlock; to marry.
- To join in sexual intercourse; to copulate.
- To cause (two animals) to copulate, to bring (two animals) together for mating.
- To enter (multiple horses with the same owner) into a race so that a single bet can be placed on any of them winning.
He/she/it couples · Prétérit coupled · Participe passé coupled · Forme en -ing coupling
Formes du verbe
- Forme de base
- couple
- He/she/it
- couples
- Prétérit
- coupled
- Participe passé
- coupled
- Forme en -ing
- coupling
Verbes à particule et expressions
Dans la bibliothèque
“‘Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, and it need not interfere very much with one’s other occupations.’
“Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, for the business has not been over good for some years, and an extra couple of hundred would have been very handy.
“There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that was even redder than mine.
She was going to the butcher’s, she told me, on purpose to order in some meat on Wednesday, and she has got three couple of ducks just fit to be killed.”
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