surtraduire

French

Etymology

From sur- +‎ traduire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /syʁ.tʁa.dɥiʁ/

Verb

surtraduire

1. to overtranslate

   Coordinate term: sous-traduire

Conjugation

Conjugation of surtraduire (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	surtraduire
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	surtraduisant /syʁ.tʁa.dɥi.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		surtraduit /syʁ.tʁa.dɥi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	surtraduis /syʁ.tʁa.dɥi/	surtraduis /syʁ.tʁa.dɥi/	surtraduit /syʁ.tʁa.dɥi/	surtraduisons /syʁ.tʁa.dɥi.zɔ̃/	surtraduisez /syʁ.tʁa.dɥi.ze/	surtraduisent /syʁ.tʁa.dɥiz/
	imperfect	surtraduisais /syʁ.tʁa.dɥi.zɛ/	surtraduisais /syʁ.tʁa.dɥi.zɛ/	surtraduisait /syʁ.tʁa.dɥi.zɛ/	surtraduisions /syʁ.tʁa.dɥi.zjɔ̃/	surtraduisiez /syʁ.tʁa.dɥi.zje/	surtraduisaient /syʁ.tʁa.dɥi.zɛ/
	past historic2	surtraduisis /syʁ.tʁa.dɥi.zi/	surtraduisis /syʁ.tʁa.dɥi.zi/	surtraduisit /syʁ.tʁa.dɥi.zi/	surtraduisîmes /syʁ.tʁa.dɥi.zim/	surtraduisîtes /syʁ.tʁa.dɥi.zit/	surtraduisirent /syʁ.tʁa.dɥi.ziʁ/
	future	surtraduirai /syʁ.tʁa.dɥi.ʁe/	surtraduiras /syʁ.tʁa.dɥi.ʁa/	surtraduira /syʁ.tʁa.dɥi.ʁa/	surtraduirons /syʁ.tʁa.dɥi.ʁɔ̃/	surtraduirez /syʁ.tʁa.dɥi.ʁe/	surtraduiront /syʁ.tʁa.dɥi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	surtraduirais /syʁ.tʁa.dɥi.ʁɛ/	surtraduirais /syʁ.tʁa.dɥi.ʁɛ/	surtraduirait /syʁ.tʁa.dɥi.ʁɛ/	surtraduirions /syʁ.tʁa.dɥi.ʁjɔ̃/	surtraduiriez /syʁ.tʁa.dɥi.ʁje/	surtraduiraient /syʁ.tʁa.dɥi.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	surtraduise /syʁ.tʁa.dɥiz/	surtraduises /syʁ.tʁa.dɥiz/	surtraduise /syʁ.tʁa.dɥiz/	surtraduisions /syʁ.tʁa.dɥi.zjɔ̃/	surtraduisiez /syʁ.tʁa.dɥi.zje/	surtraduisent /syʁ.tʁa.dɥiz/
	imperfect2	surtraduisisse /syʁ.tʁa.dɥi.zis/	surtraduisisses /syʁ.tʁa.dɥi.zis/	surtraduisît /syʁ.tʁa.dɥi.zi/	surtraduisissions /syʁ.tʁa.dɥi.zi.sjɔ̃/	surtraduisissiez /syʁ.tʁa.dɥi.zi.sje/	surtraduisissent /syʁ.tʁa.dɥi.zis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	surtraduis /syʁ.tʁa.dɥi/	—	surtraduisons /syʁ.tʁa.dɥi.zɔ̃/	surtraduisez /syʁ.tʁa.dɥi.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).

Related terms

• surtraduction