survêtir

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /syʁ.vɛ.tiʁ/, /syʁ.ve.tiʁ/

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Verb

survêtir

1. to overdress

Conjugation

This is an irregular verb of the third conjugation. Unlike regular -ir verbs, this conjugation does not include the infix -iss-.

Conjugation of survêtir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	survêtir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	survêtant /syʁ.vɛ.tɑ̃/ or /syʁ.ve.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		survêtu /syʁ.vɛ.ty/ or /syʁ.ve.ty/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	survêts /syʁ.vɛ/	survêts /syʁ.vɛ/	survêt /syʁ.vɛ/	survêtons /syʁ.vɛ.tɔ̃/ or /syʁ.ve.tɔ̃/	survêtez /syʁ.vɛ.te/ or /syʁ.ve.te/	survêtent /syʁ.vɛt/
	imperfect	survêtais /syʁ.vɛ.tɛ/ or /syʁ.ve.tɛ/	survêtais /syʁ.vɛ.tɛ/ or /syʁ.ve.tɛ/	survêtait /syʁ.vɛ.tɛ/ or /syʁ.ve.tɛ/	survêtions /syʁ.vɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /syʁ.ve.tjɔ̃/	survêtiez /syʁ.vɛ.tje/ or /syʁ.ve.tje/	survêtaient /syʁ.vɛ.tɛ/ or /syʁ.ve.tɛ/
	past historic2	survêtis /syʁ.vɛ.ti/ or /syʁ.ve.ti/	survêtis /syʁ.vɛ.ti/ or /syʁ.ve.ti/	survêtit /syʁ.vɛ.ti/ or /syʁ.ve.ti/	survêtîmes /syʁ.vɛ.tim/ or /syʁ.ve.tim/	survêtîtes /syʁ.vɛ.tit/ or /syʁ.ve.tit/	survêtirent /syʁ.vɛ.tiʁ/ or /syʁ.ve.tiʁ/
	future	survêtirai /syʁ.vɛ.ti.ʁe/ or /syʁ.ve.ti.ʁe/	survêtiras /syʁ.vɛ.ti.ʁa/ or /syʁ.ve.ti.ʁa/	survêtira /syʁ.vɛ.ti.ʁa/ or /syʁ.ve.ti.ʁa/	survêtirons /syʁ.vɛ.ti.ʁɔ̃/ or /syʁ.ve.ti.ʁɔ̃/	survêtirez /syʁ.vɛ.ti.ʁe/ or /syʁ.ve.ti.ʁe/	survêtiront /syʁ.vɛ.ti.ʁɔ̃/ or /syʁ.ve.ti.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	survêtirais /syʁ.vɛ.ti.ʁɛ/ or /syʁ.ve.ti.ʁɛ/	survêtirais /syʁ.vɛ.ti.ʁɛ/ or /syʁ.ve.ti.ʁɛ/	survêtirait /syʁ.vɛ.ti.ʁɛ/ or /syʁ.ve.ti.ʁɛ/	survêtirions /syʁ.vɛ.ti.ʁjɔ̃/ or /syʁ.ve.ti.ʁjɔ̃/	survêtiriez /syʁ.vɛ.ti.ʁje/ or /syʁ.ve.ti.ʁje/	survêtiraient /syʁ.vɛ.ti.ʁɛ/ or /syʁ.ve.ti.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	survête /syʁ.vɛt/	survêtes /syʁ.vɛt/	survête /syʁ.vɛt/	survêtions /syʁ.vɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /syʁ.ve.tjɔ̃/	survêtiez /syʁ.vɛ.tje/ or /syʁ.ve.tje/	survêtent /syʁ.vɛt/
	imperfect2	survêtisse /syʁ.vɛ.tis/ or /syʁ.ve.tis/	survêtisses /syʁ.vɛ.tis/ or /syʁ.ve.tis/	survêtît /syʁ.vɛ.ti/ or /syʁ.ve.ti/	survêtissions /syʁ.vɛ.ti.sjɔ̃/ or /syʁ.ve.ti.sjɔ̃/	survêtissiez /syʁ.vɛ.ti.sje/ or /syʁ.ve.ti.sje/	survêtissent /syʁ.vɛ.tis/ or /syʁ.ve.tis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	survêts /syʁ.vɛ/	—	survêtons /syʁ.vɛ.tɔ̃/ or /syʁ.ve.tɔ̃/	survêtez /syʁ.vɛ.te/ or /syʁ.ve.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

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