survirer

French

Etymology

From sur- +‎ virer.

Pronunciation

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Verb

survirer

1. to oversteer

Conjugation

Conjugation of survirer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	survirer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	survirant /syʁ.vi.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		surviré /syʁ.vi.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	survire /syʁ.viʁ/	survires /syʁ.viʁ/	survire /syʁ.viʁ/	survirons /syʁ.vi.ʁɔ̃/	survirez /syʁ.vi.ʁe/	survirent /syʁ.viʁ/
	imperfect	survirais /syʁ.vi.ʁɛ/	survirais /syʁ.vi.ʁɛ/	survirait /syʁ.vi.ʁɛ/	survirions /syʁ.vi.ʁjɔ̃/	surviriez /syʁ.vi.ʁje/	surviraient /syʁ.vi.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	survirai /syʁ.vi.ʁe/	surviras /syʁ.vi.ʁa/	survira /syʁ.vi.ʁa/	survirâmes /syʁ.vi.ʁam/	survirâtes /syʁ.vi.ʁat/	survirèrent /syʁ.vi.ʁɛʁ/
	future	survirerai /syʁ.vi.ʁə.ʁe/	survireras /syʁ.vi.ʁə.ʁa/	survirera /syʁ.vi.ʁə.ʁa/	survirerons /syʁ.vi.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	survirerez /syʁ.vi.ʁə.ʁe/	survireront /syʁ.vi.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	survirerais /syʁ.vi.ʁə.ʁɛ/	survirerais /syʁ.vi.ʁə.ʁɛ/	survirerait /syʁ.vi.ʁə.ʁɛ/	survirerions /syʁ.vi.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	survireriez /syʁ.vi.ʁə.ʁje/	survireraient /syʁ.vi.ʁə.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	survire /syʁ.viʁ/	survires /syʁ.viʁ/	survire /syʁ.viʁ/	survirions /syʁ.vi.ʁjɔ̃/	surviriez /syʁ.vi.ʁje/	survirent /syʁ.viʁ/
	imperfect2	survirasse /syʁ.vi.ʁas/	survirasses /syʁ.vi.ʁas/	survirât /syʁ.vi.ʁa/	survirassions /syʁ.vi.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	survirassiez /syʁ.vi.ʁa.sje/	survirassent /syʁ.vi.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	survire /syʁ.viʁ/	—	survirons /syʁ.vi.ʁɔ̃/	survirez /syʁ.vi.ʁe/	—
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

• survirage

Further reading

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