sursaturer

French

Etymology

From sur- +‎ saturer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /syʁ.sa.ty.ʁe/

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Verb

sursaturer

1. (transitive) to supersaturate

Conjugation

Conjugation of sursaturer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	sursaturer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	sursaturant /syʁ.sa.ty.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		sursaturé /syʁ.sa.ty.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	sursature /syʁ.sa.tyʁ/	sursatures /syʁ.sa.tyʁ/	sursature /syʁ.sa.tyʁ/	sursaturons /syʁ.sa.ty.ʁɔ̃/	sursaturez /syʁ.sa.ty.ʁe/	sursaturent /syʁ.sa.tyʁ/
	imperfect	sursaturais /syʁ.sa.ty.ʁɛ/	sursaturais /syʁ.sa.ty.ʁɛ/	sursaturait /syʁ.sa.ty.ʁɛ/	sursaturions /syʁ.sa.ty.ʁjɔ̃/	sursaturiez /syʁ.sa.ty.ʁje/	sursaturaient /syʁ.sa.ty.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	sursaturai /syʁ.sa.ty.ʁe/	sursaturas /syʁ.sa.ty.ʁa/	sursatura /syʁ.sa.ty.ʁa/	sursaturâmes /syʁ.sa.ty.ʁam/	sursaturâtes /syʁ.sa.ty.ʁat/	sursaturèrent /syʁ.sa.ty.ʁɛʁ/
	future	sursaturerai /syʁ.sa.ty.ʁə.ʁe/	sursatureras /syʁ.sa.ty.ʁə.ʁa/	sursaturera /syʁ.sa.ty.ʁə.ʁa/	sursaturerons /syʁ.sa.ty.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	sursaturerez /syʁ.sa.ty.ʁə.ʁe/	sursatureront /syʁ.sa.ty.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	sursaturerais /syʁ.sa.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/	sursaturerais /syʁ.sa.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/	sursaturerait /syʁ.sa.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/	sursaturerions /syʁ.sa.ty.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	sursatureriez /syʁ.sa.ty.ʁə.ʁje/	sursatureraient /syʁ.sa.ty.ʁə.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	sursature /syʁ.sa.tyʁ/	sursatures /syʁ.sa.tyʁ/	sursature /syʁ.sa.tyʁ/	sursaturions /syʁ.sa.ty.ʁjɔ̃/	sursaturiez /syʁ.sa.ty.ʁje/	sursaturent /syʁ.sa.tyʁ/
	imperfect2	sursaturasse /syʁ.sa.ty.ʁas/	sursaturasses /syʁ.sa.ty.ʁas/	sursaturât /syʁ.sa.ty.ʁa/	sursaturassions /syʁ.sa.ty.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	sursaturassiez /syʁ.sa.ty.ʁa.sje/	sursaturassent /syʁ.sa.ty.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	sursature /syʁ.sa.tyʁ/	—	sursaturons /syʁ.sa.ty.ʁɔ̃/	sursaturez /syʁ.sa.ty.ʁe/	—
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).

Related terms

• sursaturation

Further reading

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