surexposer

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

surexposer

1. (photography) to overexpose
2. to show (typically a body part) too much

Conjugation

Conjugation of surexposer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	surexposer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	surexposant /sy.ʁɛk.spo.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		surexposé /sy.ʁɛk.spo.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	surexpose /sy.ʁɛk.spoz/	surexposes /sy.ʁɛk.spoz/	surexpose /sy.ʁɛk.spoz/	surexposons /sy.ʁɛk.spo.zɔ̃/	surexposez /sy.ʁɛk.spo.ze/	surexposent /sy.ʁɛk.spoz/
	imperfect	surexposais /sy.ʁɛk.spo.zɛ/	surexposais /sy.ʁɛk.spo.zɛ/	surexposait /sy.ʁɛk.spo.zɛ/	surexposions /sy.ʁɛk.spo.zjɔ̃/	surexposiez /sy.ʁɛk.spo.zje/	surexposaient /sy.ʁɛk.spo.zɛ/
	past historic2	surexposai /sy.ʁɛk.spo.ze/	surexposas /sy.ʁɛk.spo.za/	surexposa /sy.ʁɛk.spo.za/	surexposâmes /sy.ʁɛk.spo.zam/	surexposâtes /sy.ʁɛk.spo.zat/	surexposèrent /sy.ʁɛk.spo.zɛʁ/
	future	surexposerai /sy.ʁɛk.spoz.ʁe/	surexposeras /sy.ʁɛk.spoz.ʁa/	surexposera /sy.ʁɛk.spoz.ʁa/	surexposerons /sy.ʁɛk.spoz.ʁɔ̃/	surexposerez /sy.ʁɛk.spoz.ʁe/	surexposeront /sy.ʁɛk.spoz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	surexposerais /sy.ʁɛk.spoz.ʁɛ/	surexposerais /sy.ʁɛk.spoz.ʁɛ/	surexposerait /sy.ʁɛk.spoz.ʁɛ/	surexposerions /sy.ʁɛk.spo.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	surexposeriez /sy.ʁɛk.spo.zə.ʁje/	surexposeraient /sy.ʁɛk.spoz.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	surexpose /sy.ʁɛk.spoz/	surexposes /sy.ʁɛk.spoz/	surexpose /sy.ʁɛk.spoz/	surexposions /sy.ʁɛk.spo.zjɔ̃/	surexposiez /sy.ʁɛk.spo.zje/	surexposent /sy.ʁɛk.spoz/
	imperfect2	surexposasse /sy.ʁɛk.spo.zas/	surexposasses /sy.ʁɛk.spo.zas/	surexposât /sy.ʁɛk.spo.za/	surexposassions /sy.ʁɛk.spo.za.sjɔ̃/	surexposassiez /sy.ʁɛk.spo.za.sje/	surexposassent /sy.ʁɛk.spo.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	surexpose /sy.ʁɛk.spoz/	—	surexposons /sy.ʁɛk.spo.zɔ̃/	surexposez /sy.ʁɛk.spo.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

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