surtaxer

French

Etymology

From sur- +‎ taxer or surtaxe +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /syʁ.tak.se/

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Verb

surtaxer

1. to overtax (impose too much taxation)
2. to charge an additional fee

Conjugation

Conjugation of surtaxer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	surtaxer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	surtaxant /syʁ.tak.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		surtaxé /syʁ.tak.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	surtaxe /syʁ.taks/	surtaxes /syʁ.taks/	surtaxe /syʁ.taks/	surtaxons /syʁ.tak.sɔ̃/	surtaxez /syʁ.tak.se/	surtaxent /syʁ.taks/
	imperfect	surtaxais /syʁ.tak.sɛ/	surtaxais /syʁ.tak.sɛ/	surtaxait /syʁ.tak.sɛ/	surtaxions /syʁ.tak.sjɔ̃/	surtaxiez /syʁ.tak.sje/	surtaxaient /syʁ.tak.sɛ/
	past historic2	surtaxai /syʁ.tak.se/	surtaxas /syʁ.tak.sa/	surtaxa /syʁ.tak.sa/	surtaxâmes /syʁ.tak.sam/	surtaxâtes /syʁ.tak.sat/	surtaxèrent /syʁ.tak.sɛʁ/
	future	surtaxerai /syʁ.tak.sə.ʁe/	surtaxeras /syʁ.tak.sə.ʁa/	surtaxera /syʁ.tak.sə.ʁa/	surtaxerons /syʁ.tak.sə.ʁɔ̃/	surtaxerez /syʁ.tak.sə.ʁe/	surtaxeront /syʁ.tak.sə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	surtaxerais /syʁ.tak.sə.ʁɛ/	surtaxerais /syʁ.tak.sə.ʁɛ/	surtaxerait /syʁ.tak.sə.ʁɛ/	surtaxerions /syʁ.tak.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	surtaxeriez /syʁ.tak.sə.ʁje/	surtaxeraient /syʁ.tak.sə.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	surtaxe /syʁ.taks/	surtaxes /syʁ.taks/	surtaxe /syʁ.taks/	surtaxions /syʁ.tak.sjɔ̃/	surtaxiez /syʁ.tak.sje/	surtaxent /syʁ.taks/
	imperfect2	surtaxasse /syʁ.tak.sas/	surtaxasses /syʁ.tak.sas/	surtaxât /syʁ.tak.sa/	surtaxassions /syʁ.tak.sa.sjɔ̃/	surtaxassiez /syʁ.tak.sa.sje/	surtaxassent /syʁ.tak.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	surtaxe /syʁ.taks/	—	surtaxons /syʁ.tak.sɔ̃/	surtaxez /syʁ.tak.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).

Derived terms

• surtaxation

Related terms

• surtaxe

Further reading

• “surtaxer” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
• “surtaxer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.