surcuire

French

Etymology

From sur- +‎ cuire.

Pronunciation

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Verb

surcuire

1. to overcook (to cook for too long)

Conjugation

Conjugation of surcuire (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	surcuire
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	surcuisant /syʁ.kɥi.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		surcuit /syʁ.kɥi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	surcuis /syʁ.kɥi/	surcuis /syʁ.kɥi/	surcuit /syʁ.kɥi/	surcuisons /syʁ.kɥi.zɔ̃/	surcuisez /syʁ.kɥi.ze/	surcuisent /syʁ.kɥiz/
	imperfect	surcuisais /syʁ.kɥi.zɛ/	surcuisais /syʁ.kɥi.zɛ/	surcuisait /syʁ.kɥi.zɛ/	surcuisions /syʁ.kɥi.zjɔ̃/	surcuisiez /syʁ.kɥi.zje/	surcuisaient /syʁ.kɥi.zɛ/
	past historic2	surcuisis /syʁ.kɥi.zi/	surcuisis /syʁ.kɥi.zi/	surcuisit /syʁ.kɥi.zi/	surcuisîmes /syʁ.kɥi.zim/	surcuisîtes /syʁ.kɥi.zit/	surcuisirent /syʁ.kɥi.ziʁ/
	future	surcuirai /syʁ.kɥi.ʁe/	surcuiras /syʁ.kɥi.ʁa/	surcuira /syʁ.kɥi.ʁa/	surcuirons /syʁ.kɥi.ʁɔ̃/	surcuirez /syʁ.kɥi.ʁe/	surcuiront /syʁ.kɥi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	surcuirais /syʁ.kɥi.ʁɛ/	surcuirais /syʁ.kɥi.ʁɛ/	surcuirait /syʁ.kɥi.ʁɛ/	surcuirions /syʁ.kɥi.ʁjɔ̃/	surcuiriez /syʁ.kɥi.ʁje/	surcuiraient /syʁ.kɥi.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	surcuise /syʁ.kɥiz/	surcuises /syʁ.kɥiz/	surcuise /syʁ.kɥiz/	surcuisions /syʁ.kɥi.zjɔ̃/	surcuisiez /syʁ.kɥi.zje/	surcuisent /syʁ.kɥiz/
	imperfect2	surcuisisse /syʁ.kɥi.zis/	surcuisisses /syʁ.kɥi.zis/	surcuisît /syʁ.kɥi.zi/	surcuisissions /syʁ.kɥi.zi.sjɔ̃/	surcuisissiez /syʁ.kɥi.zi.sje/	surcuisissent /syʁ.kɥi.zis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	surcuis /syʁ.kɥi/	—	surcuisons /syʁ.kɥi.zɔ̃/	surcuisez /syʁ.kɥi.ze/	—
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

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