surpeupler

French

Etymology

From sur- +‎ peupler.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /syʁ.pœ.ple/

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• Rhymes: -e
• Homophones: surpeuplai, surpeuplé, surpeuplée, surpeuplées, surpeuplés, surpeuplez

Verb

surpeupler

1. overpopulate

Conjugation

Conjugation of surpeupler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	surpeupler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	surpeuplant /syʁ.pœ.plɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		surpeuplé /syʁ.pœ.ple/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	surpeuple /syʁ.pœpl/	surpeuples /syʁ.pœpl/	surpeuple /syʁ.pœpl/	surpeuplons /syʁ.pœ.plɔ̃/	surpeuplez /syʁ.pœ.ple/	surpeuplent /syʁ.pœpl/
	imperfect	surpeuplais /syʁ.pœ.plɛ/	surpeuplais /syʁ.pœ.plɛ/	surpeuplait /syʁ.pœ.plɛ/	surpeuplions /syʁ.pœ.pli.jɔ̃/	surpeupliez /syʁ.pœ.pli.je/	surpeuplaient /syʁ.pœ.plɛ/
	past historic2	surpeuplai /syʁ.pœ.ple/	surpeuplas /syʁ.pœ.pla/	surpeupla /syʁ.pœ.pla/	surpeuplâmes /syʁ.pœ.plam/	surpeuplâtes /syʁ.pœ.plat/	surpeuplèrent /syʁ.pœ.plɛʁ/
	future	surpeuplerai /syʁ.pœ.plə.ʁe/	surpeupleras /syʁ.pœ.plə.ʁa/	surpeuplera /syʁ.pœ.plə.ʁa/	surpeuplerons /syʁ.pœ.plə.ʁɔ̃/	surpeuplerez /syʁ.pœ.plə.ʁe/	surpeupleront /syʁ.pœ.plə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	surpeuplerais /syʁ.pœ.plə.ʁɛ/	surpeuplerais /syʁ.pœ.plə.ʁɛ/	surpeuplerait /syʁ.pœ.plə.ʁɛ/	surpeuplerions /syʁ.pœ.plə.ʁjɔ̃/	surpeupleriez /syʁ.pœ.plə.ʁje/	surpeupleraient /syʁ.pœ.plə.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	surpeuple /syʁ.pœpl/	surpeuples /syʁ.pœpl/	surpeuple /syʁ.pœpl/	surpeuplions /syʁ.pœ.pli.jɔ̃/	surpeupliez /syʁ.pœ.pli.je/	surpeuplent /syʁ.pœpl/
	imperfect2	surpeuplasse /syʁ.pœ.plas/	surpeuplasses /syʁ.pœ.plas/	surpeuplât /syʁ.pœ.pla/	surpeuplassions /syʁ.pœ.pla.sjɔ̃/	surpeuplassiez /syʁ.pœ.pla.sje/	surpeuplassent /syʁ.pœ.plas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	surpeuple /syʁ.pœpl/	—	surpeuplons /syʁ.pœ.plɔ̃/	surpeuplez /syʁ.pœ.ple/	—
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).

Related terms

• surpeuplé
• surpeuplement

Further reading

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