surpayer

French

Etymology

From sur- +‎ payer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /syʁ.pɛ.je/ ~ /syʁ.pe.je/

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Verb

surpayer

1. (transitive) to overpay

Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb as far as pronunciation is concerned, but as with other verbs in -ayer (such as payer and essayer), the <y> of its stem may optionally be written as <i> when it precedes a silent <e> (compare verbs in -eyer, which never have this spelling change, and verbs in -oyer and -uyer, which always have it; verbs in -ayer belong to either group, according to the writer's preference).

Conjugation of surpayer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	surpayer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	surpayant /syʁ.pɛ.jɑ̃/ or /syʁ.pe.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		surpayé /syʁ.pɛ.je/ or /syʁ.pe.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	surpaye or surpaie /syʁ.pɛj/ or /syʁ.pɛ/	surpayes or surpaies /syʁ.pɛj/ or /syʁ.pɛ/	surpaye or surpaie /syʁ.pɛj/ or /syʁ.pɛ/	surpayons /syʁ.pɛ.jɔ̃/ or /syʁ.pe.jɔ̃/	surpayez /syʁ.pɛ.je/ or /syʁ.pe.je/	surpayent or surpaient /syʁ.pɛj/ or /syʁ.pɛ/
	imperfect	surpayais /syʁ.pɛ.jɛ/ or /syʁ.pe.jɛ/	surpayais /syʁ.pɛ.jɛ/ or /syʁ.pe.jɛ/	surpayait /syʁ.pɛ.jɛ/ or /syʁ.pe.jɛ/	surpayions /syʁ.pɛj.jɔ̃/	surpayiez /syʁ.pɛj.je/	surpayaient /syʁ.pɛ.jɛ/ or /syʁ.pe.jɛ/
	past historic2	surpayai /syʁ.pɛ.je/ or /syʁ.pe.je/	surpayas /syʁ.pɛ.ja/ or /syʁ.pe.ja/	surpaya /syʁ.pɛ.ja/ or /syʁ.pe.ja/	surpayâmes /syʁ.pɛ.jam/ or /syʁ.pe.jam/	surpayâtes /syʁ.pɛ.jat/ or /syʁ.pe.jat/	surpayèrent /syʁ.pɛ.jɛʁ/ or /syʁ.pe.jɛʁ/
	future	surpayerai or surpaierai /syʁ.pɛj.ʁe/ or /syʁ.pɛ.ʁe/ or /syʁ.pe.ʁe/	surpayeras or surpaieras /syʁ.pɛj.ʁa/ or /syʁ.pɛ.ʁa/ or /syʁ.pe.ʁa/	surpayera or surpaiera /syʁ.pɛj.ʁa/ or /syʁ.pɛ.ʁa/ or /syʁ.pe.ʁa/	surpayerons or surpaierons /syʁ.pɛj.ʁɔ̃/ or /syʁ.pɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /syʁ.pe.ʁɔ̃/	surpayerez or surpaierez /syʁ.pɛj.ʁe/ or /syʁ.pɛ.ʁe/ or /syʁ.pe.ʁe/	surpayeront or surpaieront /syʁ.pɛj.ʁɔ̃/ or /syʁ.pɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /syʁ.pe.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	surpayerais or surpaierais /syʁ.pɛj.ʁɛ/ or /syʁ.pɛ.ʁɛ/ or /syʁ.pe.ʁɛ/	surpayerais or surpaierais /syʁ.pɛj.ʁɛ/ or /syʁ.pɛ.ʁɛ/ or /syʁ.pe.ʁɛ/	surpayerait or surpaierait /syʁ.pɛj.ʁɛ/ or /syʁ.pɛ.ʁɛ/ or /syʁ.pe.ʁɛ/	surpayerions or surpaierions /syʁ.pɛ.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /syʁ.pe.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /syʁ.pɛ.ʁjɔ̃/ or /syʁ.pe.ʁjɔ̃/	surpayeriez or surpaieriez /syʁ.pɛ.jə.ʁje/ or /syʁ.pe.jə.ʁje/ or /syʁ.pɛ.ʁje/ or /syʁ.pe.ʁje/	surpayeraient or surpaieraient /syʁ.pɛj.ʁɛ/ or /syʁ.pɛ.ʁɛ/ or /syʁ.pe.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	surpaye or surpaie /syʁ.pɛj/ or /syʁ.pɛ/	surpayes or surpaies /syʁ.pɛj/ or /syʁ.pɛ/	surpaye or surpaie /syʁ.pɛj/ or /syʁ.pɛ/	surpayions /syʁ.pɛj.jɔ̃/	surpayiez /syʁ.pɛj.je/	surpayent or surpaient /syʁ.pɛj/ or /syʁ.pɛ/
	imperfect2	surpayasse /syʁ.pɛ.jas/ or /syʁ.pe.jas/	surpayasses /syʁ.pɛ.jas/ or /syʁ.pe.jas/	surpayât /syʁ.pɛ.ja/ or /syʁ.pe.ja/	surpayassions /syʁ.pɛ.ja.sjɔ̃/ or /syʁ.pe.ja.sjɔ̃/	surpayassiez /syʁ.pɛ.ja.sje/ or /syʁ.pe.ja.sje/	surpayassent /syʁ.pɛ.jas/ or /syʁ.pe.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	surpaye or surpaie /syʁ.pɛj/ or /syʁ.pɛ/	—	surpayons /syʁ.pɛ.jɔ̃/ or /syʁ.pe.jɔ̃/	surpayez /syʁ.pɛ.je/ or /syʁ.pe.je/	—
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

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