surbaisser

French

Etymology

From sur- +‎ baisser.

Pronunciation

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Verb

surbaisser

1. to lower, to surbase
2. to undersling

Conjugation

Conjugation of surbaisser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	surbaisser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	surbaissant /syʁ.bɛ.sɑ̃/ or /syʁ.be.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		surbaissé /syʁ.bɛ.se/ or /syʁ.be.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	surbaisse /syʁ.bɛs/	surbaisses /syʁ.bɛs/	surbaisse /syʁ.bɛs/	surbaissons /syʁ.bɛ.sɔ̃/ or /syʁ.be.sɔ̃/	surbaissez /syʁ.bɛ.se/ or /syʁ.be.se/	surbaissent /syʁ.bɛs/
	imperfect	surbaissais /syʁ.bɛ.sɛ/ or /syʁ.be.sɛ/	surbaissais /syʁ.bɛ.sɛ/ or /syʁ.be.sɛ/	surbaissait /syʁ.bɛ.sɛ/ or /syʁ.be.sɛ/	surbaissions /syʁ.bɛ.sjɔ̃/ or /syʁ.be.sjɔ̃/	surbaissiez /syʁ.bɛ.sje/ or /syʁ.be.sje/	surbaissaient /syʁ.bɛ.sɛ/ or /syʁ.be.sɛ/
	past historic2	surbaissai /syʁ.bɛ.se/ or /syʁ.be.se/	surbaissas /syʁ.bɛ.sa/ or /syʁ.be.sa/	surbaissa /syʁ.bɛ.sa/ or /syʁ.be.sa/	surbaissâmes /syʁ.bɛ.sam/ or /syʁ.be.sam/	surbaissâtes /syʁ.bɛ.sat/ or /syʁ.be.sat/	surbaissèrent /syʁ.bɛ.sɛʁ/ or /syʁ.be.sɛʁ/
	future	surbaisserai /syʁ.bɛ.sʁe/ or /syʁ.be.sʁe/	surbaisseras /syʁ.bɛ.sʁa/ or /syʁ.be.sʁa/	surbaissera /syʁ.bɛ.sʁa/ or /syʁ.be.sʁa/	surbaisserons /syʁ.bɛ.sʁɔ̃/ or /syʁ.be.sʁɔ̃/	surbaisserez /syʁ.bɛ.sʁe/ or /syʁ.be.sʁe/	surbaisseront /syʁ.bɛ.sʁɔ̃/ or /syʁ.be.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	surbaisserais /syʁ.bɛ.sʁɛ/ or /syʁ.be.sʁɛ/	surbaisserais /syʁ.bɛ.sʁɛ/ or /syʁ.be.sʁɛ/	surbaisserait /syʁ.bɛ.sʁɛ/ or /syʁ.be.sʁɛ/	surbaisserions /syʁ.bɛ.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /syʁ.be.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	surbaisseriez /syʁ.bɛ.sə.ʁje/ or /syʁ.be.sə.ʁje/	surbaisseraient /syʁ.bɛ.sʁɛ/ or /syʁ.be.sʁɛ/
(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	surbaisse /syʁ.bɛs/	surbaisses /syʁ.bɛs/	surbaisse /syʁ.bɛs/	surbaissions /syʁ.bɛ.sjɔ̃/ or /syʁ.be.sjɔ̃/	surbaissiez /syʁ.bɛ.sje/ or /syʁ.be.sje/	surbaissent /syʁ.bɛs/
	imperfect2	surbaissasse /syʁ.bɛ.sas/ or /syʁ.be.sas/	surbaissasses /syʁ.bɛ.sas/ or /syʁ.be.sas/	surbaissât /syʁ.bɛ.sa/ or /syʁ.be.sa/	surbaissassions /syʁ.bɛ.sa.sjɔ̃/ or /syʁ.be.sa.sjɔ̃/	surbaissassiez /syʁ.bɛ.sa.sje/ or /syʁ.be.sa.sje/	surbaissassent /syʁ.bɛ.sas/ or /syʁ.be.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	surbaisse /syʁ.bɛs/	—	surbaissons /syʁ.bɛ.sɔ̃/ or /syʁ.be.sɔ̃/	surbaissez /syʁ.bɛ.se/ or /syʁ.be.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: 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

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