sursauter

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /syʁ.so.te/

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Verb

sursauter

1. (intransitive) to make a sudden movement by being surprised; to start.

Conjugation

Conjugation of sursauter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	sursauter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	sursautant /syʁ.so.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		sursauté /syʁ.so.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	sursaute /syʁ.sot/	sursautes /syʁ.sot/	sursaute /syʁ.sot/	sursautons /syʁ.so.tɔ̃/	sursautez /syʁ.so.te/	sursautent /syʁ.sot/
	imperfect	sursautais /syʁ.so.tɛ/	sursautais /syʁ.so.tɛ/	sursautait /syʁ.so.tɛ/	sursautions /syʁ.so.tjɔ̃/	sursautiez /syʁ.so.tje/	sursautaient /syʁ.so.tɛ/
	past historic2	sursautai /syʁ.so.te/	sursautas /syʁ.so.ta/	sursauta /syʁ.so.ta/	sursautâmes /syʁ.so.tam/	sursautâtes /syʁ.so.tat/	sursautèrent /syʁ.so.tɛʁ/
	future	sursauterai /syʁ.so.tʁe/	sursauteras /syʁ.so.tʁa/	sursautera /syʁ.so.tʁa/	sursauterons /syʁ.so.tʁɔ̃/	sursauterez /syʁ.so.tʁe/	sursauteront /syʁ.so.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	sursauterais /syʁ.so.tʁɛ/	sursauterais /syʁ.so.tʁɛ/	sursauterait /syʁ.so.tʁɛ/	sursauterions /syʁ.so.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	sursauteriez /syʁ.so.tə.ʁje/	sursauteraient /syʁ.so.tʁɛ/
(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	sursaute /syʁ.sot/	sursautes /syʁ.sot/	sursaute /syʁ.sot/	sursautions /syʁ.so.tjɔ̃/	sursautiez /syʁ.so.tje/	sursautent /syʁ.sot/
	imperfect2	sursautasse /syʁ.so.tas/	sursautasses /syʁ.so.tas/	sursautât /syʁ.so.ta/	sursautassions /syʁ.so.ta.sjɔ̃/	sursautassiez /syʁ.so.ta.sje/	sursautassent /syʁ.so.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	sursaute /syʁ.sot/	—	sursautons /syʁ.so.tɔ̃/	sursautez /syʁ.so.te/	—
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

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