surqualifier

French

Etymology

From sur- +‎ qualifier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /syʁ.ka.li.fje/

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Verb

surqualifier

1. (transitive) to overqualify

Conjugation

Conjugation of surqualifier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	surqualifier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	surqualifiant /syʁ.ka.li.fjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		surqualifié /syʁ.ka.li.fje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	surqualifie /syʁ.ka.li.fi/	surqualifies /syʁ.ka.li.fi/	surqualifie /syʁ.ka.li.fi/	surqualifions /syʁ.ka.li.fjɔ̃/	surqualifiez /syʁ.ka.li.fje/	surqualifient /syʁ.ka.li.fi/
	imperfect	surqualifiais /syʁ.ka.li.fjɛ/	surqualifiais /syʁ.ka.li.fjɛ/	surqualifiait /syʁ.ka.li.fjɛ/	surqualifiions /syʁ.ka.li.fi.jɔ̃/	surqualifiiez /syʁ.ka.li.fi.je/	surqualifiaient /syʁ.ka.li.fjɛ/
	past historic2	surqualifiai /syʁ.ka.li.fje/	surqualifias /syʁ.ka.li.fja/	surqualifia /syʁ.ka.li.fja/	surqualifiâmes /syʁ.ka.li.fjam/	surqualifiâtes /syʁ.ka.li.fjat/	surqualifièrent /syʁ.ka.li.fjɛʁ/
	future	surqualifierai /syʁ.ka.li.fi.ʁe/	surqualifieras /syʁ.ka.li.fi.ʁa/	surqualifiera /syʁ.ka.li.fi.ʁa/	surqualifierons /syʁ.ka.li.fi.ʁɔ̃/	surqualifierez /syʁ.ka.li.fi.ʁe/	surqualifieront /syʁ.ka.li.fi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	surqualifierais /syʁ.ka.li.fi.ʁɛ/	surqualifierais /syʁ.ka.li.fi.ʁɛ/	surqualifierait /syʁ.ka.li.fi.ʁɛ/	surqualifierions /syʁ.ka.li.fi.ʁjɔ̃/	surqualifieriez /syʁ.ka.li.fi.ʁje/	surqualifieraient /syʁ.ka.li.fi.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	surqualifie /syʁ.ka.li.fi/	surqualifies /syʁ.ka.li.fi/	surqualifie /syʁ.ka.li.fi/	surqualifiions /syʁ.ka.li.fi.jɔ̃/	surqualifiiez /syʁ.ka.li.fi.je/	surqualifient /syʁ.ka.li.fi/
	imperfect2	surqualifiasse /syʁ.ka.li.fjas/	surqualifiasses /syʁ.ka.li.fjas/	surqualifiât /syʁ.ka.li.fja/	surqualifiassions /syʁ.ka.li.fja.sjɔ̃/	surqualifiassiez /syʁ.ka.li.fja.sje/	surqualifiassent /syʁ.ka.li.fjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	surqualifie /syʁ.ka.li.fi/	—	surqualifions /syʁ.ka.li.fjɔ̃/	surqualifiez /syʁ.ka.li.fje/	—
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

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