English-French translations for surprise

• surprendre
  Et ceci ne doit pas nous surprendre. And that should not surprise us.
  Comment cette situation pourrait-elle nous surprendre ? So how can we be surprised at this situation?
  Ma réponse va vous surprendre. The answer that I came up with will surprise you.
• surprise
  Dans cette affaire, nous allons de surprise en surprise. We reel from one surprise to another.
  Nous avons été pris par surprise. We have been taken by surprise.
  À ma grande surprise, il n'a pas nié. To my surprise, he did not deny it.
• étonner
  Cela ne peut étonner personne! That cannot possibly surprise anyone.
  Cela ne devrait donc pas vous étonner. That should come as no surprise to you.
  Nous sommes surpris, je répète, de leur capacité à s'étonner. We are amazed, let me repeat, that they should be so surprised.

Definition of surprise

• Something unexpected
• The feeling that something unexpected has happened
• A dish covered with a crust of raised pastry, but with no other contents
• To cause to feel unusually alarmed or delighted by something unexpected
• To do something to that they are not expecting, as a surprise
• To undergo or witness something unexpected
• To cause surprise
• To take unawares

Examples

• It was a surprise to find out I owed twice as much as I thought I did
• Imagine my surprise on learning I owed twice as much as I thought I did
• It surprises me that I owe twice as much as I thought I did.
• He doesn’t know that I’m in the country – I thought I’d turn up at his house and surprise him.
• He doesn’t surprise easily.

Related words

• surprised
• surprise surprise
• surprise party
• surprise attack
• surprise fire
• surprise ending
• surprise gift
• element of surprise
• take by surprise