surcouper

French

Etymology

sur- +‎ couper

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /syʁ.ku.pe/

Verb

surcouper

1. (transitive) to overtrump

Conjugation

Conjugation of surcouper (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	surcouper
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	surcoupant /syʁ.ku.pɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		surcoupé /syʁ.ku.pe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	surcoupe /syʁ.kup/	surcoupes /syʁ.kup/	surcoupe /syʁ.kup/	surcoupons /syʁ.ku.pɔ̃/	surcoupez /syʁ.ku.pe/	surcoupent /syʁ.kup/
	imperfect	surcoupais /syʁ.ku.pɛ/	surcoupais /syʁ.ku.pɛ/	surcoupait /syʁ.ku.pɛ/	surcoupions /syʁ.ku.pjɔ̃/	surcoupiez /syʁ.ku.pje/	surcoupaient /syʁ.ku.pɛ/
	past historic2	surcoupai /syʁ.ku.pe/	surcoupas /syʁ.ku.pa/	surcoupa /syʁ.ku.pa/	surcoupâmes /syʁ.ku.pam/	surcoupâtes /syʁ.ku.pat/	surcoupèrent /syʁ.ku.pɛʁ/
	future	surcouperai /syʁ.ku.pʁe/	surcouperas /syʁ.ku.pʁa/	surcoupera /syʁ.ku.pʁa/	surcouperons /syʁ.ku.pʁɔ̃/	surcouperez /syʁ.ku.pʁe/	surcouperont /syʁ.ku.pʁɔ̃/
	conditional	surcouperais /syʁ.ku.pʁɛ/	surcouperais /syʁ.ku.pʁɛ/	surcouperait /syʁ.ku.pʁɛ/	surcouperions /syʁ.ku.pə.ʁjɔ̃/	surcouperiez /syʁ.ku.pə.ʁje/	surcouperaient /syʁ.ku.pʁɛ/
(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	surcoupe /syʁ.kup/	surcoupes /syʁ.kup/	surcoupe /syʁ.kup/	surcoupions /syʁ.ku.pjɔ̃/	surcoupiez /syʁ.ku.pje/	surcoupent /syʁ.kup/
	imperfect2	surcoupasse /syʁ.ku.pas/	surcoupasses /syʁ.ku.pas/	surcoupât /syʁ.ku.pa/	surcoupassions /syʁ.ku.pa.sjɔ̃/	surcoupassiez /syʁ.ku.pa.sje/	surcoupassent /syʁ.ku.pas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	surcoupe /syʁ.kup/	—	surcoupons /syʁ.ku.pɔ̃/	surcoupez /syʁ.ku.pe/	—
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

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