surgeler

French

Etymology

From sur- +‎ geler.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /syʁ.ʒə.le/

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Verb

surgeler

1. to deep-freeze

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like parler, except the -e- /ə/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes -è- /ɛ/ when the next vowel is a silent or schwa -e-, as in the third-person singular present indicative il surgèle and the third-person singular future indicative il surgèlera.

Conjugation of surgeler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	surgeler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	surgelant /syʁ.ʒə.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		surgelé /syʁ.ʒə.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	surgèle /syʁ.ʒɛl/	surgèles /syʁ.ʒɛl/	surgèle /syʁ.ʒɛl/	surgelons /syʁ.ʒə.lɔ̃/	surgelez /syʁ.ʒə.le/	surgèlent /syʁ.ʒɛl/
	imperfect	surgelais /syʁ.ʒə.lɛ/	surgelais /syʁ.ʒə.lɛ/	surgelait /syʁ.ʒə.lɛ/	surgelions /syʁ.ʒə.ljɔ̃/	surgeliez /syʁ.ʒə.lje/	surgelaient /syʁ.ʒə.lɛ/
	past historic2	surgelai /syʁ.ʒə.le/	surgelas /syʁ.ʒə.la/	surgela /syʁ.ʒə.la/	surgelâmes /syʁ.ʒə.lam/	surgelâtes /syʁ.ʒə.lat/	surgelèrent /syʁ.ʒə.lɛʁ/
	future	surgèlerai /syʁ.ʒɛl.ʁe/	surgèleras /syʁ.ʒɛl.ʁa/	surgèlera /syʁ.ʒɛl.ʁa/	surgèlerons /syʁ.ʒɛl.ʁɔ̃/	surgèlerez /syʁ.ʒɛl.ʁe/	surgèleront /syʁ.ʒɛl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	surgèlerais /syʁ.ʒɛl.ʁɛ/	surgèlerais /syʁ.ʒɛl.ʁɛ/	surgèlerait /syʁ.ʒɛl.ʁɛ/	surgèlerions /syʁ.ʒɛ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /syʁ.ʒe.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	surgèleriez /syʁ.ʒɛ.lə.ʁje/ or /syʁ.ʒe.lə.ʁje/	surgèleraient /syʁ.ʒɛl.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	surgèle /syʁ.ʒɛl/	surgèles /syʁ.ʒɛl/	surgèle /syʁ.ʒɛl/	surgelions /syʁ.ʒə.ljɔ̃/	surgeliez /syʁ.ʒə.lje/	surgèlent /syʁ.ʒɛl/
	imperfect2	surgelasse /syʁ.ʒə.las/	surgelasses /syʁ.ʒə.las/	surgelât /syʁ.ʒə.la/	surgelassions /syʁ.ʒə.la.sjɔ̃/	surgelassiez /syʁ.ʒə.la.sje/	surgelassent /syʁ.ʒə.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	surgèle /syʁ.ʒɛl/	—	surgelons /syʁ.ʒə.lɔ̃/	surgelez /syʁ.ʒə.le/	—
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

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