sous-doser

French

Etymology

From sous- +‎ doser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su.do.ze/

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Verb

sous-doser

1. to underdose

Conjugation

Conjugation of sous-doser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	sous-doser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	sous-dosant /su.do.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		sous-dosé /su.do.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	sous-dose /su.doz/	sous-doses /su.doz/	sous-dose /su.doz/	sous-dosons /su.do.zɔ̃/	sous-dosez /su.do.ze/	sous-dosent /su.doz/
	imperfect	sous-dosais /su.do.zɛ/	sous-dosais /su.do.zɛ/	sous-dosait /su.do.zɛ/	sous-dosions /su.do.zjɔ̃/	sous-dosiez /su.do.zje/	sous-dosaient /su.do.zɛ/
	past historic2	sous-dosai /su.do.ze/	sous-dosas /su.do.za/	sous-dosa /su.do.za/	sous-dosâmes /su.do.zam/	sous-dosâtes /su.do.zat/	sous-dosèrent /su.do.zɛʁ/
	future	sous-doserai /su.doz.ʁe/	sous-doseras /su.doz.ʁa/	sous-dosera /su.doz.ʁa/	sous-doserons /su.doz.ʁɔ̃/	sous-doserez /su.doz.ʁe/	sous-doseront /su.doz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	sous-doserais /su.doz.ʁɛ/	sous-doserais /su.doz.ʁɛ/	sous-doserait /su.doz.ʁɛ/	sous-doserions /su.do.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	sous-doseriez /su.do.zə.ʁje/	sous-doseraient /su.doz.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	sous-dose /su.doz/	sous-doses /su.doz/	sous-dose /su.doz/	sous-dosions /su.do.zjɔ̃/	sous-dosiez /su.do.zje/	sous-dosent /su.doz/
	imperfect2	sous-dosasse /su.do.zas/	sous-dosasses /su.do.zas/	sous-dosât /su.do.za/	sous-dosassions /su.do.za.sjɔ̃/	sous-dosassiez /su.do.za.sje/	sous-dosassent /su.do.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	sous-dose /su.doz/	—	sous-dosons /su.do.zɔ̃/	sous-dosez /su.do.ze/	—
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

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