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surenchérir
surenchérir
French
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)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | surenchérir | avoir surenchéri | |||||
| gerund | en surenchérissant | en ayant surenchéri | |||||
| present participle | surenchérissant /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | surenchéri /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| 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/ |
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| past historic1 | 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/ |
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| 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/ |
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| 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/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| 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/ |
| imperfect1 |
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/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | surenchéris /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi/ |
— | surenchérissons /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.sɔ̃/ |
surenchérissez /sy.ʁɑ̃.ʃe.ʁi.se/ |
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