surclasser

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

surclasser

1. to outclass

Conjugation

Conjugation of surclasser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	surclasser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	surclassant /syʁ.kla.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		surclassé /syʁ.kla.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	surclasse /syʁ.klas/	surclasses /syʁ.klas/	surclasse /syʁ.klas/	surclassons /syʁ.kla.sɔ̃/	surclassez /syʁ.kla.se/	surclassent /syʁ.klas/
	imperfect	surclassais /syʁ.kla.sɛ/	surclassais /syʁ.kla.sɛ/	surclassait /syʁ.kla.sɛ/	surclassions /syʁ.kla.sjɔ̃/	surclassiez /syʁ.kla.sje/	surclassaient /syʁ.kla.sɛ/
	past historic2	surclassai /syʁ.kla.se/	surclassas /syʁ.kla.sa/	surclassa /syʁ.kla.sa/	surclassâmes /syʁ.kla.sam/	surclassâtes /syʁ.kla.sat/	surclassèrent /syʁ.kla.sɛʁ/
	future	surclasserai /syʁ.kla.sʁe/	surclasseras /syʁ.kla.sʁa/	surclassera /syʁ.kla.sʁa/	surclasserons /syʁ.kla.sʁɔ̃/	surclasserez /syʁ.kla.sʁe/	surclasseront /syʁ.kla.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	surclasserais /syʁ.kla.sʁɛ/	surclasserais /syʁ.kla.sʁɛ/	surclasserait /syʁ.kla.sʁɛ/	surclasserions /syʁ.kla.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	surclasseriez /syʁ.kla.sə.ʁje/	surclasseraient /syʁ.kla.sʁɛ/
(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	surclasse /syʁ.klas/	surclasses /syʁ.klas/	surclasse /syʁ.klas/	surclassions /syʁ.kla.sjɔ̃/	surclassiez /syʁ.kla.sje/	surclassent /syʁ.klas/
	imperfect2	surclassasse /syʁ.kla.sas/	surclassasses /syʁ.kla.sas/	surclassât /syʁ.kla.sa/	surclassassions /syʁ.kla.sa.sjɔ̃/	surclassassiez /syʁ.kla.sa.sje/	surclassassent /syʁ.kla.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	surclasse /syʁ.klas/	—	surclassons /syʁ.kla.sɔ̃/	surclassez /syʁ.kla.se/	—
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

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