surveoir

Old French

Verb

surveoir

1. Alternative form of sourveoir
   • Guillaume de Tyre

     Fist li rois fere deus chastiaus de fust mout biaus et mout hauz dont on poot surveoir toute la ville

     The king had two castles built with beautiful, high beams from which one could survey the whole city

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has a stressed present stem survoi distinct from the unstressed stem surve, as well as other irregularities. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

    Conjugation of surveoir (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		surveoir			avoir surveü, survis
gerund		en surveant, survoiant			gerund of avoir + past participle
present participle		surveant, survoiant
past participle		surveü, survis
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		jo	tu	il	nos	vos	il
simple tenses	present	survoi	survoiz	survoit	surveons	surveez	survoient
	imperfect	surveoie, surveeie	surveoies, surveeies	surveoit, surveeit	surveïiens, surveïens	surveïiez, surveïez	surveoient, surveeient
	preterite	survi	surveïs	survit	surveïmes	surveïstes	survirent
	future	surverai	surveras	survera	surverons	surveroiz, survereiz, surverez	surveront
	conditional	surveroie, survereie	surveroies, survereies	surveroit, survereit	surveriiens, surveriens	surveriiez, surveriez	surveroient, survereient
compound tenses	present perfect	present tense of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect tense of avoir + past participle
	past anterior	preterite tense of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future tense of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional tense of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que jo	que tu	qu’il	que nos	que vos	qu’il
simple tenses	present	survoie	survoies	survoie	surveons, survoiiens, survoions	surveez, survoiiez	survoient
	imperfect	surveïsse	surveïsses	surveïst	surveïssons, surveïssiens	surveïssoiz, surveïssez, surveïssiez	surveïssent
compound tenses	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nos	vos	–
		—	survoi	—	surveons	surveez, survez	—