surmotiver

French

Etymology

From sur- +‎ motiver.

Pronunciation

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Verb

surmotiver

1. to charge, spur on

Conjugation

Conjugation of surmotiver (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	surmotiver
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	surmotivant /syʁ.mɔ.ti.vɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		surmotivé /syʁ.mɔ.ti.ve/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	surmotive /syʁ.mɔ.tiv/	surmotives /syʁ.mɔ.tiv/	surmotive /syʁ.mɔ.tiv/	surmotivons /syʁ.mɔ.ti.vɔ̃/	surmotivez /syʁ.mɔ.ti.ve/	surmotivent /syʁ.mɔ.tiv/
	imperfect	surmotivais /syʁ.mɔ.ti.vɛ/	surmotivais /syʁ.mɔ.ti.vɛ/	surmotivait /syʁ.mɔ.ti.vɛ/	surmotivions /syʁ.mɔ.ti.vjɔ̃/	surmotiviez /syʁ.mɔ.ti.vje/	surmotivaient /syʁ.mɔ.ti.vɛ/
	past historic2	surmotivai /syʁ.mɔ.ti.ve/	surmotivas /syʁ.mɔ.ti.va/	surmotiva /syʁ.mɔ.ti.va/	surmotivâmes /syʁ.mɔ.ti.vam/	surmotivâtes /syʁ.mɔ.ti.vat/	surmotivèrent /syʁ.mɔ.ti.vɛʁ/
	future	surmotiverai /syʁ.mɔ.ti.vʁe/	surmotiveras /syʁ.mɔ.ti.vʁa/	surmotivera /syʁ.mɔ.ti.vʁa/	surmotiverons /syʁ.mɔ.ti.vʁɔ̃/	surmotiverez /syʁ.mɔ.ti.vʁe/	surmotiveront /syʁ.mɔ.ti.vʁɔ̃/
	conditional	surmotiverais /syʁ.mɔ.ti.vʁɛ/	surmotiverais /syʁ.mɔ.ti.vʁɛ/	surmotiverait /syʁ.mɔ.ti.vʁɛ/	surmotiverions /syʁ.mɔ.ti.və.ʁjɔ̃/	surmotiveriez /syʁ.mɔ.ti.və.ʁje/	surmotiveraient /syʁ.mɔ.ti.vʁɛ/
(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	surmotive /syʁ.mɔ.tiv/	surmotives /syʁ.mɔ.tiv/	surmotive /syʁ.mɔ.tiv/	surmotivions /syʁ.mɔ.ti.vjɔ̃/	surmotiviez /syʁ.mɔ.ti.vje/	surmotivent /syʁ.mɔ.tiv/
	imperfect2	surmotivasse /syʁ.mɔ.ti.vas/	surmotivasses /syʁ.mɔ.ti.vas/	surmotivât /syʁ.mɔ.ti.va/	surmotivassions /syʁ.mɔ.ti.va.sjɔ̃/	surmotivassiez /syʁ.mɔ.ti.va.sje/	surmotivassent /syʁ.mɔ.ti.vas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	surmotive /syʁ.mɔ.tiv/	—	surmotivons /syʁ.mɔ.ti.vɔ̃/	surmotivez /syʁ.mɔ.ti.ve/	—
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).