surestimer

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

surestimer

1. to overestimate

   Antonym: sous-estimer

Conjugation

Conjugation of surestimer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	surestimer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	surestimant /sy.ʁɛs.ti.mɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		surestimé /sy.ʁɛs.ti.me/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	surestime /sy.ʁɛs.tim/	surestimes /sy.ʁɛs.tim/	surestime /sy.ʁɛs.tim/	surestimons /sy.ʁɛs.ti.mɔ̃/	surestimez /sy.ʁɛs.ti.me/	surestiment /sy.ʁɛs.tim/
	imperfect	surestimais /sy.ʁɛs.ti.mɛ/	surestimais /sy.ʁɛs.ti.mɛ/	surestimait /sy.ʁɛs.ti.mɛ/	surestimions /sy.ʁɛs.ti.mjɔ̃/	surestimiez /sy.ʁɛs.ti.mje/	surestimaient /sy.ʁɛs.ti.mɛ/
	past historic2	surestimai /sy.ʁɛs.ti.me/	surestimas /sy.ʁɛs.ti.ma/	surestima /sy.ʁɛs.ti.ma/	surestimâmes /sy.ʁɛs.ti.mam/	surestimâtes /sy.ʁɛs.ti.mat/	surestimèrent /sy.ʁɛs.ti.mɛʁ/
	future	surestimerai /sy.ʁɛs.tim.ʁe/	surestimeras /sy.ʁɛs.tim.ʁa/	surestimera /sy.ʁɛs.tim.ʁa/	surestimerons /sy.ʁɛs.tim.ʁɔ̃/	surestimerez /sy.ʁɛs.tim.ʁe/	surestimeront /sy.ʁɛs.tim.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	surestimerais /sy.ʁɛs.tim.ʁɛ/	surestimerais /sy.ʁɛs.tim.ʁɛ/	surestimerait /sy.ʁɛs.tim.ʁɛ/	surestimerions /sy.ʁɛs.ti.mə.ʁjɔ̃/	surestimeriez /sy.ʁɛs.ti.mə.ʁje/	surestimeraient /sy.ʁɛs.tim.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	surestime /sy.ʁɛs.tim/	surestimes /sy.ʁɛs.tim/	surestime /sy.ʁɛs.tim/	surestimions /sy.ʁɛs.ti.mjɔ̃/	surestimiez /sy.ʁɛs.ti.mje/	surestiment /sy.ʁɛs.tim/
	imperfect2	surestimasse /sy.ʁɛs.ti.mas/	surestimasses /sy.ʁɛs.ti.mas/	surestimât /sy.ʁɛs.ti.ma/	surestimassions /sy.ʁɛs.ti.ma.sjɔ̃/	surestimassiez /sy.ʁɛs.ti.ma.sje/	surestimassent /sy.ʁɛs.ti.mas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	surestime /sy.ʁɛs.tim/	—	surestimons /sy.ʁɛs.ti.mɔ̃/	surestimez /sy.ʁɛs.ti.me/	—
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

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

Anagrams

• meurtrisse