surfiler

French

Etymology

From surfil +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /syʁ.fi.le/

• Audio:

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Verb

surfiler

1. (transitive) to oversew

Conjugation

Conjugation of surfiler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	surfiler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	surfilant /syʁ.fi.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		surfilé /syʁ.fi.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	surfile /syʁ.fil/	surfiles /syʁ.fil/	surfile /syʁ.fil/	surfilons /syʁ.fi.lɔ̃/	surfilez /syʁ.fi.le/	surfilent /syʁ.fil/
	imperfect	surfilais /syʁ.fi.lɛ/	surfilais /syʁ.fi.lɛ/	surfilait /syʁ.fi.lɛ/	surfilions /syʁ.fi.ljɔ̃/	surfiliez /syʁ.fi.lje/	surfilaient /syʁ.fi.lɛ/
	past historic2	surfilai /syʁ.fi.le/	surfilas /syʁ.fi.la/	surfila /syʁ.fi.la/	surfilâmes /syʁ.fi.lam/	surfilâtes /syʁ.fi.lat/	surfilèrent /syʁ.fi.lɛʁ/
	future	surfilerai /syʁ.fil.ʁe/	surfileras /syʁ.fil.ʁa/	surfilera /syʁ.fil.ʁa/	surfilerons /syʁ.fil.ʁɔ̃/	surfilerez /syʁ.fil.ʁe/	surfileront /syʁ.fil.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	surfilerais /syʁ.fil.ʁɛ/	surfilerais /syʁ.fil.ʁɛ/	surfilerait /syʁ.fil.ʁɛ/	surfilerions /syʁ.fi.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	surfileriez /syʁ.fi.lə.ʁje/	surfileraient /syʁ.fil.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	surfile /syʁ.fil/	surfiles /syʁ.fil/	surfile /syʁ.fil/	surfilions /syʁ.fi.ljɔ̃/	surfiliez /syʁ.fi.lje/	surfilent /syʁ.fil/
	imperfect2	surfilasse /syʁ.fi.las/	surfilasses /syʁ.fi.las/	surfilât /syʁ.fi.la/	surfilassions /syʁ.fi.la.sjɔ̃/	surfilassiez /syʁ.fi.la.sje/	surfilassent /syʁ.fi.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	surfile /syʁ.fil/	—	surfilons /syʁ.fi.lɔ̃/	surfilez /syʁ.fi.le/	—
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

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