survolter

French

Etymology

From sur- +‎ volter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /syʁ.vɔl.te/

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Verb

survolter

1. to boost (an electrical circuit)
2. to overexcite

Conjugation

Conjugation of survolter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	survolter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	survoltant /syʁ.vɔl.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		survolté /syʁ.vɔl.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	survolte /syʁ.vɔlt/	survoltes /syʁ.vɔlt/	survolte /syʁ.vɔlt/	survoltons /syʁ.vɔl.tɔ̃/	survoltez /syʁ.vɔl.te/	survoltent /syʁ.vɔlt/
	imperfect	survoltais /syʁ.vɔl.tɛ/	survoltais /syʁ.vɔl.tɛ/	survoltait /syʁ.vɔl.tɛ/	survoltions /syʁ.vɔl.tjɔ̃/	survoltiez /syʁ.vɔl.tje/	survoltaient /syʁ.vɔl.tɛ/
	past historic2	survoltai /syʁ.vɔl.te/	survoltas /syʁ.vɔl.ta/	survolta /syʁ.vɔl.ta/	survoltâmes /syʁ.vɔl.tam/	survoltâtes /syʁ.vɔl.tat/	survoltèrent /syʁ.vɔl.tɛʁ/
	future	survolterai /syʁ.vɔl.tə.ʁe/	survolteras /syʁ.vɔl.tə.ʁa/	survoltera /syʁ.vɔl.tə.ʁa/	survolterons /syʁ.vɔl.tə.ʁɔ̃/	survolterez /syʁ.vɔl.tə.ʁe/	survolteront /syʁ.vɔl.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	survolterais /syʁ.vɔl.tə.ʁɛ/	survolterais /syʁ.vɔl.tə.ʁɛ/	survolterait /syʁ.vɔl.tə.ʁɛ/	survolterions /syʁ.vɔl.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	survolteriez /syʁ.vɔl.tə.ʁje/	survolteraient /syʁ.vɔl.tə.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	survolte /syʁ.vɔlt/	survoltes /syʁ.vɔlt/	survolte /syʁ.vɔlt/	survoltions /syʁ.vɔl.tjɔ̃/	survoltiez /syʁ.vɔl.tje/	survoltent /syʁ.vɔlt/
	imperfect2	survoltasse /syʁ.vɔl.tas/	survoltasses /syʁ.vɔl.tas/	survoltât /syʁ.vɔl.ta/	survoltassions /syʁ.vɔl.ta.sjɔ̃/	survoltassiez /syʁ.vɔl.ta.sje/	survoltassent /syʁ.vɔl.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	survolte /syʁ.vɔlt/	—	survoltons /syʁ.vɔl.tɔ̃/	survoltez /syʁ.vɔl.te/	—
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

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