surprotéger
French
Etymology
sur- + protéger
Pronunciation
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Verb
surprotéger
- to overprotect
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated like protéger. It has both the spelling irregularities of other verbs in -ger (such as manger, where a silent 'e' is inserted before 'a' and 'o' endings (to indicate the /ʒ/ sound), and the spelling and pronunciation irregularities of other verbs in -é-er (such as céder), where the last stem vowel alternates between /e/ (written 'é') and /ɛ/ (written 'è').
Conjugation of surprotéger (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | surprotéger | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | surprotégeant /syʁ.pʁɔ.te.ʒɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | surprotégé /syʁ.pʁɔ.te.ʒe/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | surprotège /syʁ.pʁɔ.tɛʒ/ | surprotèges /syʁ.pʁɔ.tɛʒ/ | surprotège /syʁ.pʁɔ.tɛʒ/ | surprotégeons /syʁ.pʁɔ.te.ʒɔ̃/ | surprotégez /syʁ.pʁɔ.te.ʒe/ | surprotègent /syʁ.pʁɔ.tɛʒ/ |
imperfect | surprotégeais /syʁ.pʁɔ.te.ʒɛ/ | surprotégeais /syʁ.pʁɔ.te.ʒɛ/ | surprotégeait /syʁ.pʁɔ.te.ʒɛ/ | surprotégions /syʁ.pʁɔ.te.ʒjɔ̃/ | surprotégiez /syʁ.pʁɔ.te.ʒje/ | surprotégeaient /syʁ.pʁɔ.te.ʒɛ/ | |
past historic2 | surprotégeai /syʁ.pʁɔ.te.ʒe/ | surprotégeas /syʁ.pʁɔ.te.ʒa/ | surprotégea /syʁ.pʁɔ.te.ʒa/ | surprotégeâmes /syʁ.pʁɔ.te.ʒam/ | surprotégeâtes /syʁ.pʁɔ.te.ʒat/ | surprotégèrent /syʁ.pʁɔ.te.ʒɛʁ/ | |
future | surprotégerai or surprotègerai /syʁ.pʁɔ.tɛʒ.ʁe/ | surprotégeras or surprotègeras /syʁ.pʁɔ.tɛʒ.ʁa/ | surprotégera or surprotègera /syʁ.pʁɔ.tɛʒ.ʁa/ | surprotégerons or surprotègerons /syʁ.pʁɔ.tɛʒ.ʁɔ̃/ | surprotégerez or surprotègerez /syʁ.pʁɔ.tɛʒ.ʁe/ | surprotégeront or surprotègeront /syʁ.pʁɔ.tɛʒ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | surprotégerais or surprotègerais /syʁ.pʁɔ.tɛʒ.ʁɛ/ | surprotégerais or surprotègerais /syʁ.pʁɔ.tɛʒ.ʁɛ/ | surprotégerait or surprotègerait /syʁ.pʁɔ.tɛʒ.ʁɛ/ | surprotégerions or surprotègerions /syʁ.pʁɔ.tɛ.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /syʁ.pʁɔ.te.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ | surprotégeriez or surprotègeriez /syʁ.pʁɔ.tɛ.ʒə.ʁje/ or /syʁ.pʁɔ.te.ʒə.ʁje/ | surprotégeraient or surprotègeraient /syʁ.pʁɔ.tɛʒ.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 | surprotège /syʁ.pʁɔ.tɛʒ/ | surprotèges /syʁ.pʁɔ.tɛʒ/ | surprotège /syʁ.pʁɔ.tɛʒ/ | surprotégions /syʁ.pʁɔ.te.ʒjɔ̃/ | surprotégiez /syʁ.pʁɔ.te.ʒje/ | surprotègent /syʁ.pʁɔ.tɛʒ/ |
imperfect2 | surprotégeasse /syʁ.pʁɔ.te.ʒas/ | surprotégeasses /syʁ.pʁɔ.te.ʒas/ | surprotégeât /syʁ.pʁɔ.te.ʒa/ | surprotégeassions /syʁ.pʁɔ.te.ʒa.sjɔ̃/ | surprotégeassiez /syʁ.pʁɔ.te.ʒa.sje/ | surprotégeassent /syʁ.pʁɔ.te.ʒas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | surprotège /syʁ.pʁɔ.tɛʒ/ | — | surprotégeons /syʁ.pʁɔ.te.ʒɔ̃/ | surprotégez /syʁ.pʁɔ.te.ʒe/ | — | |
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
- “surprotéger”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.