surfaire

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /syʁ.fɛʁ/

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Verb

surfaire

1. to overmake
2. to oversell (someone)

Conjugation

Conjugation of surfaire (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	surfaire
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	surfaisant /syʁ.fə.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		surfait /syʁ.fɛ/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	surfais /syʁ.fɛ/	surfais /syʁ.fɛ/	surfait /syʁ.fɛ/	surfaisons /syʁ.fə.zɔ̃/	surfaites /syʁ.fɛt/	surfont /syʁ.fɔ̃/
	imperfect	surfaisais /syʁ.fə.zɛ/	surfaisais /syʁ.fə.zɛ/	surfaisait /syʁ.fə.zɛ/	surfaisions /syʁ.fə.zjɔ̃/	surfaisiez /syʁ.fə.zje/	surfaisaient /syʁ.fə.zɛ/
	past historic2	surfis /syʁ.fi/	surfis /syʁ.fi/	surfit /syʁ.fi/	surfîmes /syʁ.fim/	surfîtes /syʁ.fit/	surfirent /syʁ.fiʁ/
	future	surferai /syʁ.fə.ʁe/	surferas /syʁ.fə.ʁa/	surfera /syʁ.fə.ʁa/	surferons /syʁ.fə.ʁɔ̃/	surferez /syʁ.fə.ʁe/	surferont /syʁ.fə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	surferais /syʁ.fə.ʁɛ/	surferais /syʁ.fə.ʁɛ/	surferait /syʁ.fə.ʁɛ/	surferions /syʁ.fə.ʁjɔ̃/	surferiez /syʁ.fə.ʁje/	surferaient /syʁ.fə.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	surfasse /syʁ.fas/	surfasses /syʁ.fas/	surfasse /syʁ.fas/	surfassions /syʁ.fa.sjɔ̃/	surfassiez /syʁ.fa.sje/	surfassent /syʁ.fas/
	imperfect2	surfisse /syʁ.fis/	surfisses /syʁ.fis/	surfît /syʁ.fi/	surfissions /syʁ.fi.sjɔ̃/	surfissiez /syʁ.fi.sje/	surfissent /syʁ.fis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	surfais /syʁ.fɛ/	—	surfaisons /syʁ.fə.zɔ̃/	surfaites /syʁ.fɛt/	—
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

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