surmiser

English

Etymology

From surmise +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪzə(ɹ)

Noun

surmiser (plural surmisers)

1. One who surmises.

French

Etymology

From sur- +‎ miser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /syʁ.mi.ze/

Verb

surmiser

1. to overbid (bid too much)
2. to overbet (bet too much)

Conjugation

Conjugation of surmiser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	surmiser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	surmisant /syʁ.mi.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		surmisé /syʁ.mi.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	surmise /syʁ.miz/	surmises /syʁ.miz/	surmise /syʁ.miz/	surmisons /syʁ.mi.zɔ̃/	surmisez /syʁ.mi.ze/	surmisent /syʁ.miz/
	imperfect	surmisais /syʁ.mi.zɛ/	surmisais /syʁ.mi.zɛ/	surmisait /syʁ.mi.zɛ/	surmisions /syʁ.mi.zjɔ̃/	surmisiez /syʁ.mi.zje/	surmisaient /syʁ.mi.zɛ/
	past historic2	surmisai /syʁ.mi.ze/	surmisas /syʁ.mi.za/	surmisa /syʁ.mi.za/	surmisâmes /syʁ.mi.zam/	surmisâtes /syʁ.mi.zat/	surmisèrent /syʁ.mi.zɛʁ/
	future	surmiserai /syʁ.miz.ʁe/	surmiseras /syʁ.miz.ʁa/	surmisera /syʁ.miz.ʁa/	surmiserons /syʁ.miz.ʁɔ̃/	surmiserez /syʁ.miz.ʁe/	surmiseront /syʁ.miz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	surmiserais /syʁ.miz.ʁɛ/	surmiserais /syʁ.miz.ʁɛ/	surmiserait /syʁ.miz.ʁɛ/	surmiserions /syʁ.mi.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	surmiseriez /syʁ.mi.zə.ʁje/	surmiseraient /syʁ.miz.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	surmise /syʁ.miz/	surmises /syʁ.miz/	surmise /syʁ.miz/	surmisions /syʁ.mi.zjɔ̃/	surmisiez /syʁ.mi.zje/	surmisent /syʁ.miz/
	imperfect2	surmisasse /syʁ.mi.zas/	surmisasses /syʁ.mi.zas/	surmisât /syʁ.mi.za/	surmisassions /syʁ.mi.za.sjɔ̃/	surmisassiez /syʁ.mi.za.sje/	surmisassent /syʁ.mi.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	surmise /syʁ.miz/	—	surmisons /syʁ.mi.zɔ̃/	surmisez /syʁ.mi.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

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