surtraduire
French, verb/syʁ.tʁa.dɥiʁ/
surtraduire is spelled S-U-R-T-R-A-D-U-I-R-E (11 letters). Surtraduire is a French verb meaning “to overtranslate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Traduire en faisant passer dans la traduction plus que ce qui est dans l’original”.
What does surtraduire mean in English?
verb
- 1
to overtranslate
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Traduire en faisant passer dans la traduction plus que ce qui est dans l’original.
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 surtraduire
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- surtraduisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- surtraduit participle past
- surtraduis first-person indicative present
- surtraduisons first-person indicative plural
- surtraduisez indicative plural present
- surtraduisent indicative plural present
- surtraduisais first-person imperfect indicative
- surtraduisait imperfect indicative singular
- surtraduisions first-person imperfect indicative
- surtraduisiez imperfect indicative plural
- surtraduisaient imperfect indicative plural
- surtraduisis first-person historic indicative
- surtraduisit historic indicative past
- surtraduisîmes first-person historic indicative
- surtraduisîtes historic indicative past
- surtraduisirent historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce surtraduire?
- /syʁ.tʁa.dɥiʁ/
- \syʁ.tʁa.dɥiʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.