rayer
See also: raþer
French
Etymology
From raie + -er. Found in Old French as roier. Cf. however also Old French raier, rayer, possibly from Latin radiāre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁɛ.je/
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Verb
rayer
- to line, to make lines on, to mark with lines (e.g. a piece of paper)
- to cross out, to cross off (remove something from a list)
- Quand il arrivera, tu pourras rayer son nom. ― When he arrives, you can cross off his name.
- to wipe off (remove)
- Je l'ai rayé du tableau. ― I wiped it off the board.
- rayé de la carte. ― wiped off the map
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 rayer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | rayant /ʁɛ.jɑ̃/ or /ʁe.jɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | rayé /ʁɛ.je/ or /ʁe.je/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | rayer | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | rayant /ʁɛ.jɑ̃/ or /ʁe.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 | raye or raie /ʁɛj/ or /ʁɛ/ |
rayes or raies /ʁɛj/ or /ʁɛ/ |
raye or raie /ʁɛj/ or /ʁɛ/ |
rayons /ʁɛ.jɔ̃/ or /ʁe.jɔ̃/ |
rayez /ʁɛ.je/ or /ʁe.je/ |
rayent or raient /ʁɛj/ or /ʁɛ/ |
| imperfect | rayais /ʁɛ.jɛ/ or /ʁe.jɛ/ |
rayais /ʁɛ.jɛ/ or /ʁe.jɛ/ |
rayait /ʁɛ.jɛ/ or /ʁe.jɛ/ |
rayions /ʁɛj.jɔ̃/ or /ʁej.jɔ̃/ |
rayiez /ʁɛj.je/ or /ʁej.je/ |
rayaient /ʁɛ.jɛ/ or /ʁe.jɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | rayai /ʁɛ.je/ or /ʁe.je/ |
rayas /ʁɛ.ja/ or /ʁe.ja/ |
raya /ʁɛ.ja/ or /ʁe.ja/ |
rayâmes /ʁɛ.jam/ or /ʁe.jam/ |
rayâtes /ʁɛ.jat/ or /ʁe.jat/ |
rayèrent /ʁɛ.jɛʁ/ or /ʁe.jɛʁ/ | |
| future | rayerai or raierai /ʁɛj.ʁe/ or /ʁɛ.ʁe/ |
rayeras or raieras /ʁɛj.ʁa/ or /ʁɛ.ʁa/ |
rayera or raiera /ʁɛj.ʁa/ or /ʁɛ.ʁa/ |
rayerons or raierons /ʁɛj.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʁɛ.ʁɔ̃/ |
rayerez or raierez /ʁɛj.ʁe/ or /ʁɛ.ʁe/ |
rayeront or raieront /ʁɛj.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʁɛ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | rayerais or raierais /ʁɛj.ʁɛ/ or /ʁɛ.ʁɛ/ |
rayerais or raierais /ʁɛj.ʁɛ/ or /ʁɛ.ʁɛ/ |
rayerait or raierait /ʁɛj.ʁɛ/ or /ʁɛ.ʁɛ/ |
rayerions or raierions /ʁɛ.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ʁɛ.ʁjɔ̃/ |
rayeriez or raieriez /ʁɛ.jə.ʁje/ or /ʁɛ.ʁje/ |
rayeraient or raieraient /ʁɛj.ʁɛ/ or /ʁɛ.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 | raye or raie /ʁɛj/ or /ʁɛ/ |
rayes or raies /ʁɛj/ or /ʁɛ/ |
raye or raie /ʁɛj/ or /ʁɛ/ |
rayions /ʁɛj.jɔ̃/ or /ʁej.jɔ̃/ |
rayiez /ʁɛj.je/ or /ʁej.je/ |
rayent or raient /ʁɛj/ or /ʁɛ/ |
| imperfect2 | rayasse /ʁɛ.jas/ or /ʁe.jas/ |
rayasses /ʁɛ.jas/ or /ʁe.jas/ |
rayât /ʁɛ.ja/ or /ʁe.ja/ |
rayassions /ʁɛ.ja.sjɔ̃/ or /ʁe.ja.sjɔ̃/ |
rayassiez /ʁɛ.ja.sje/ or /ʁe.ja.sje/ |
rayassent /ʁɛ.jas/ or /ʁe.jas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | raye or raie /ʁɛj/ or /ʁɛ/ |
— | rayons /ʁɛ.jɔ̃/ or /ʁe.jɔ̃/ |
rayez /ʁɛ.je/ or /ʁe.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
- “rayer” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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