surtaxer
French, verb/syʁ.tak.se/
surtaxer is spelled S-U-R-T-A-X-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written French, the 110,748th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Surtaxer is a French verb meaning “to overtax (impose too much taxation)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Taxer par surcroît ou trop haut”.
What does surtaxer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to overtax (impose too much taxation)
- 2
to charge an additional fee
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Taxer par surcroît ou trop haut. 2. Taxer indument.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of surtaxer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- surtaxant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- surtaxé participle past
- surtaxe first-person indicative present
- surtaxes indicative present second-person
- surtaxons first-person indicative plural
- surtaxez indicative plural present
- surtaxent indicative plural present
- surtaxais first-person imperfect indicative
- surtaxait imperfect indicative singular
- surtaxions first-person imperfect indicative
- surtaxiez imperfect indicative plural
- surtaxaient imperfect indicative plural
- surtaxai first-person historic indicative
- surtaxas historic indicative past
- surtaxa historic indicative past
- surtaxâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce surtaxer?
- /syʁ.tak.se/
- \syʁ.ta.kse\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to surtaxer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is surtaxer in French?
surtaxer appears about once in every 11 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).