balayer
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ba.lɛ.je/
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Verb
balayer
- to sweep
- to sweep aside, brush aside
- (of a long skirt) To drag on the floor
- (military) to rake (sweep with gunfire)
- (politics) to make a clean sweep
Conjugation
This is a regular -er verb as far as pronunciation is concerned, but as with other verbs in -ayer (such as payer and essayer, the <y> of its stem may optionally be written as <i> when it precedes a silent <e> (compare verbs in -eyer, which never have this spelling change, and verbs in -oyer and -uyer, which always have it; verbs in -ayer belong to both groups, according to the writer's preference).
Conjugation of balayer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | balayant /ba.lɛ.jɑ̃/ or /ba.le.jɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | balayé /ba.lɛ.je/ or /ba.le.je/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | balayer | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | balayant /ba.lɛ.jɑ̃/ or /ba.le.jɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | balaye or balaie /ba.lɛj/ or /ba.lɛ/ |
balayes or balaies /ba.lɛj/ or /ba.lɛ/ |
balaye or balaie /ba.lɛj/ or /ba.lɛ/ |
balayons /ba.lɛ.jɔ̃/ or /ba.le.jɔ̃/ |
balayez /ba.lɛ.je/ or /ba.le.je/ |
balayent or balaient /ba.lɛj/ or /ba.lɛ/ |
| imperfect | balayais /ba.lɛ.jɛ/ or /ba.le.jɛ/ |
balayais /ba.lɛ.jɛ/ or /ba.le.jɛ/ |
balayait /ba.lɛ.jɛ/ or /ba.le.jɛ/ |
balayions /ba.lɛj.jɔ̃/ or /ba.lej.jɔ̃/ |
balayiez /ba.lɛj.je/ or /ba.lej.je/ |
balayaient /ba.lɛ.jɛ/ or /ba.le.jɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | balayai /ba.lɛ.je/ or /ba.le.je/ |
balayas /ba.lɛ.ja/ or /ba.le.ja/ |
balaya /ba.lɛ.ja/ or /ba.le.ja/ |
balayâmes /ba.lɛ.jam/ or /ba.le.jam/ |
balayâtes /ba.lɛ.jat/ or /ba.le.jat/ |
balayèrent /ba.lɛ.jɛʁ/ or /ba.le.jɛʁ/ | |
| future | balayerai or balaierai /ba.lɛj.ʁe/ or /ba.lɛ.ʁe/ |
balayeras or balaieras /ba.lɛj.ʁa/ or /ba.lɛ.ʁa/ |
balayera or balaiera /ba.lɛj.ʁa/ or /ba.lɛ.ʁa/ |
balayerons or balaierons /ba.lɛj.ʁɔ̃/ or /ba.lɛ.ʁɔ̃/ |
balayerez or balaierez /ba.lɛj.ʁe/ or /ba.lɛ.ʁe/ |
balayeront or balaieront /ba.lɛj.ʁɔ̃/ or /ba.lɛ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | balayerais or balaierais /ba.lɛj.ʁɛ/ or /ba.lɛ.ʁɛ/ |
balayerais or balaierais /ba.lɛj.ʁɛ/ or /ba.lɛ.ʁɛ/ |
balayerait or balaierait /ba.lɛj.ʁɛ/ or /ba.lɛ.ʁɛ/ |
balayerions or balaierions /ba.lɛ.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ba.lɛ.ʁjɔ̃/ |
balayeriez or balaieriez /ba.lɛ.jə.ʁje/ or /ba.lɛ.ʁje/ |
balayeraient or balaieraient /ba.lɛj.ʁɛ/ or /ba.lɛ.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 | balaye or balaie /ba.lɛj/ or /ba.lɛ/ |
balayes or balaies /ba.lɛj/ or /ba.lɛ/ |
balaye or balaie /ba.lɛj/ or /ba.lɛ/ |
balayions /ba.lɛj.jɔ̃/ or /ba.lej.jɔ̃/ |
balayiez /ba.lɛj.je/ or /ba.lej.je/ |
balayent or balaient /ba.lɛj/ or /ba.lɛ/ |
| imperfect2 | balayasse /ba.lɛ.jas/ or /ba.le.jas/ |
balayasses /ba.lɛ.jas/ or /ba.le.jas/ |
balayât /ba.lɛ.ja/ or /ba.le.ja/ |
balayassions /ba.lɛ.ja.sjɔ̃/ or /ba.le.ja.sjɔ̃/ |
balayassiez /ba.lɛ.ja.sje/ or /ba.le.ja.sje/ |
balayassent /ba.lɛ.jas/ or /ba.le.jas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | balaye or balaie /ba.lɛj/ or /ba.lɛ/ |
— | balayons /ba.lɛ.jɔ̃/ or /ba.le.jɔ̃/ |
balayez /ba.lɛ.je/ or /ba.le.je/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “balayer” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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