surjouer

French

Etymology

sur- +‎ jouer

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /syʁ.ʒwe/

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Verb

surjouer

1. (acting) to ham, to overplay one's role
2. (poker) to overplay (a poker hand)

Conjugation

Conjugation of surjouer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	surjouer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	surjouant /syʁ.ʒwɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		surjoué /syʁ.ʒwe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	surjoue /syʁ.ʒu/	surjoues /syʁ.ʒu/	surjoue /syʁ.ʒu/	surjouons /syʁ.ʒwɔ̃/	surjouez /syʁ.ʒwe/	surjouent /syʁ.ʒu/
	imperfect	surjouais /syʁ.ʒwɛ/	surjouais /syʁ.ʒwɛ/	surjouait /syʁ.ʒwɛ/	surjouions /syʁ.ʒu.jɔ̃/	surjouiez /syʁ.ʒu.je/	surjouaient /syʁ.ʒwɛ/
	past historic2	surjouai /syʁ.ʒwe/	surjouas /syʁ.ʒwa/	surjoua /syʁ.ʒwa/	surjouâmes /syʁ.ʒwam/	surjouâtes /syʁ.ʒwat/	surjouèrent /syʁ.ʒwɛʁ/
	future	surjouerai /syʁ.ʒu.ʁe/	surjoueras /syʁ.ʒu.ʁa/	surjouera /syʁ.ʒu.ʁa/	surjouerons /syʁ.ʒu.ʁɔ̃/	surjouerez /syʁ.ʒu.ʁe/	surjoueront /syʁ.ʒu.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	surjouerais /syʁ.ʒu.ʁɛ/	surjouerais /syʁ.ʒu.ʁɛ/	surjouerait /syʁ.ʒu.ʁɛ/	surjouerions /syʁ.ʒu.ʁjɔ̃/	surjoueriez /syʁ.ʒu.ʁje/	surjoueraient /syʁ.ʒu.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	surjoue /syʁ.ʒu/	surjoues /syʁ.ʒu/	surjoue /syʁ.ʒu/	surjouions /syʁ.ʒu.jɔ̃/	surjouiez /syʁ.ʒu.je/	surjouent /syʁ.ʒu/
	imperfect2	surjouasse /syʁ.ʒwas/	surjouasses /syʁ.ʒwas/	surjouât /syʁ.ʒwa/	surjouassions /syʁ.ʒwa.sjɔ̃/	surjouassiez /syʁ.ʒwa.sje/	surjouassent /syʁ.ʒwas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	surjoue /syʁ.ʒu/	—	surjouons /syʁ.ʒwɔ̃/	surjouez /syʁ.ʒwe/	—
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

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