surenchérir
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
surenchérir
- (intransitive) to place a higher bid
- Quelqu’un a surenchéri sur cette vente aux enchères.
- Someone's placed a higher bid on this auction.
Conjugation edit
This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.
Conjugation of surenchérir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | surenchérir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | surenchérissant /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | surenchéri /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | surenchéris /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/ |
surenchéris /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/ |
surenchérit /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/ |
surenchérissons /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɔ̃/ |
surenchérissez /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.se/ |
surenchérissent /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/ |
| imperfect | surenchérissais /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɛ/ |
surenchérissais /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɛ/ |
surenchérissait /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɛ/ |
surenchérissions /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
surenchérissiez /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sje/ |
surenchérissaient /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | surenchéris /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/ |
surenchéris /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/ |
surenchérit /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/ |
surenchérîmes /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁim/ |
surenchérîtes /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁit/ |
surenchérirent /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁiʁ/ | |
| future | surenchérirai /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁe/ |
surenchériras /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁa/ |
surenchérira /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁa/ |
surenchérirons /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/ |
surenchérirez /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁe/ |
surenchériront /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | surenchérirais /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁɛ/ |
surenchérirais /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁɛ/ |
surenchérirait /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁɛ/ |
surenchéririons /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
surenchéririez /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁje/ |
surenchériraient /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.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 | surenchérisse /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/ |
surenchérisses /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/ |
surenchérisse /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/ |
surenchérissions /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
surenchérissiez /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sje/ |
surenchérissent /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/ |
| imperfect2 | surenchérisse /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/ |
surenchérisses /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/ |
surenchérît /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/ |
surenchérissions /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
surenchérissiez /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sje/ |
surenchérissent /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | surenchéris /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/ |
— | surenchérissons /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɔ̃/ |
surenchérissez /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.se/ |
— | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “surenchérir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.