surligner

French

Etymology

From sur- +‎ ligne +‎ -er, on the model of souligner (“to underscore”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /syʁ.li.ɲe/

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Verb

surligner

1. (of text) to highlight (make more obvious)

Conjugation

Conjugation of surligner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	surligner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	surlignant /syʁ.li.ɲɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		surligné /syʁ.li.ɲe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	surligne /syʁ.liɲ/	surlignes /syʁ.liɲ/	surligne /syʁ.liɲ/	surlignons /syʁ.li.ɲɔ̃/	surlignez /syʁ.li.ɲe/	surlignent /syʁ.liɲ/
	imperfect	surlignais /syʁ.li.ɲɛ/	surlignais /syʁ.li.ɲɛ/	surlignait /syʁ.li.ɲɛ/	surlignions /syʁ.li.ɲjɔ̃/	surligniez /syʁ.li.ɲje/	surlignaient /syʁ.li.ɲɛ/
	past historic2	surlignai /syʁ.li.ɲe/	surlignas /syʁ.li.ɲa/	surligna /syʁ.li.ɲa/	surlignâmes /syʁ.li.ɲam/	surlignâtes /syʁ.li.ɲat/	surlignèrent /syʁ.li.ɲɛʁ/
	future	surlignerai /syʁ.li.ɲə.ʁe/	surligneras /syʁ.li.ɲə.ʁa/	surlignera /syʁ.li.ɲə.ʁa/	surlignerons /syʁ.li.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/	surlignerez /syʁ.li.ɲə.ʁe/	surligneront /syʁ.li.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	surlignerais /syʁ.li.ɲə.ʁɛ/	surlignerais /syʁ.li.ɲə.ʁɛ/	surlignerait /syʁ.li.ɲə.ʁɛ/	surlignerions /syʁ.li.ɲə.ʁjɔ̃/	surligneriez /syʁ.li.ɲə.ʁje/	surligneraient /syʁ.li.ɲə.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	surligne /syʁ.liɲ/	surlignes /syʁ.liɲ/	surligne /syʁ.liɲ/	surlignions /syʁ.li.ɲjɔ̃/	surligniez /syʁ.li.ɲje/	surlignent /syʁ.liɲ/
	imperfect2	surlignasse /syʁ.li.ɲas/	surlignasses /syʁ.li.ɲas/	surlignât /syʁ.li.ɲa/	surlignassions /syʁ.li.ɲa.sjɔ̃/	surlignassiez /syʁ.li.ɲa.sje/	surlignassent /syʁ.li.ɲas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	surligne /syʁ.liɲ/	—	surlignons /syʁ.li.ɲɔ̃/	surlignez /syʁ.li.ɲe/	—
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).

Derived terms

• surligneur

Further reading

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