surenchérir
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /syʁɑ̃ʃeʁiʁ/
Verb
surenchérir
- (intransitive) to place a higher bid
- Quelqu'un a surenchéri sur cette vente aux enchères. — Someone's placed a higher bid on this auction.
Conjugation
This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.
Conjugation of surenchérir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | surenchérissant /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | surenchéri /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | surenchérir | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | surenchérissant /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | surenchéris /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/ |
surenchéris /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/ |
surenchérit /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/ |
surenchérissons /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɔ̃/ |
surenchérissez /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.se/ |
surenchérissent /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/ |
| imperfect | surenchérissais /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɛ/ |
surenchérissais /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɛ/ |
surenchérissait /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɛ/ |
surenchérissions /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
surenchérissiez /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sje/ |
surenchérissaient /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | surenchéris /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/ |
surenchéris /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/ |
surenchérit /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/ |
surenchérîmes /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁim/ |
surenchérîtes /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁit/ |
surenchérirent /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁiʁ/ | |
| future | surenchérirai /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁe/ |
surenchériras /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁa/ |
surenchérira /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁa/ |
surenchérirons /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/ |
surenchérirez /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁe/ |
surenchériront /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | surenchérirais /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁɛ/ |
surenchérirais /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁɛ/ |
surenchérirait /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁɛ/ |
surenchéririons /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
surenchéririez /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.ʁje/ |
surenchériraient /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.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 | surenchérisse /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/ |
surenchérisses /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/ |
surenchérisse /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/ |
surenchérissions /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
surenchérissiez /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sje/ |
surenchérissent /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/ |
| imperfect2 | surenchérisse /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/ |
surenchérisses /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/ |
surenchérît /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/ |
surenchérissions /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
surenchérissiez /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sje/ |
surenchérissent /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | surenchéris /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/ |
— | surenchérissons /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɔ̃/ |
surenchérissez /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.se/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “surenchérir” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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