surfacer

English

Etymology

surface +‎ -er

Noun

surfacer (plural surfacers)

1. One who rises to the surface.
2. A person who planes or dresses a surface.
3. Any of various machines used to plane or dress a surface.

Anagrams

• farceurs

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /syʁ.fa.se/

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Verb

surfacer

1. (transitive) to plane, to smooth (a surface)

   Synonym: dégauchir

Conjugation

This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which 'c' is softened to a 'ç' before the vowels 'a' and 'o'.

Conjugation of surfacer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	surfacer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	surfaçant /syʁ.fa.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		surfacé /syʁ.fa.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	surface /syʁ.fas/	surfaces /syʁ.fas/	surface /syʁ.fas/	surfaçons /syʁ.fa.sɔ̃/	surfacez /syʁ.fa.se/	surfacent /syʁ.fas/
	imperfect	surfaçais /syʁ.fa.sɛ/	surfaçais /syʁ.fa.sɛ/	surfaçait /syʁ.fa.sɛ/	surfacions /syʁ.fa.sjɔ̃/	surfaciez /syʁ.fa.sje/	surfaçaient /syʁ.fa.sɛ/
	past historic2	surfaçai /syʁ.fa.se/	surfaças /syʁ.fa.sa/	surfaça /syʁ.fa.sa/	surfaçâmes /syʁ.fa.sam/	surfaçâtes /syʁ.fa.sat/	surfacèrent /syʁ.fa.sɛʁ/
	future	surfacerai /syʁ.fa.sʁe/	surfaceras /syʁ.fa.sʁa/	surfacera /syʁ.fa.sʁa/	surfacerons /syʁ.fa.sʁɔ̃/	surfacerez /syʁ.fa.sʁe/	surfaceront /syʁ.fa.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	surfacerais /syʁ.fa.sʁɛ/	surfacerais /syʁ.fa.sʁɛ/	surfacerait /syʁ.fa.sʁɛ/	surfacerions /syʁ.fa.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	surfaceriez /syʁ.fa.sə.ʁje/	surfaceraient /syʁ.fa.sʁɛ/
(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	surface /syʁ.fas/	surfaces /syʁ.fas/	surface /syʁ.fas/	surfacions /syʁ.fa.sjɔ̃/	surfaciez /syʁ.fa.sje/	surfacent /syʁ.fas/
	imperfect2	surfaçasse /syʁ.fa.sas/	surfaçasses /syʁ.fa.sas/	surfaçât /syʁ.fa.sa/	surfaçassions /syʁ.fa.sa.sjɔ̃/	surfaçassiez /syʁ.fa.sa.sje/	surfaçassent /syʁ.fa.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	surface /syʁ.fas/	—	surfaçons /syʁ.fa.sɔ̃/	surfacez /syʁ.fa.se/	—
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

• surfaçage
• surfaceur

Further reading

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