sursauter
French
editPronunciation
editVerb
editsursauter
- (intransitive) to make a sudden movement by being surprised; to start, jump
Conjugation
editConjugation 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 | – | – | – | ||||
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
edit- “sursauter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.