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/, /ʁe.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.
- J'ai rayé de la carte. ― I 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 either group, according to the writer's preference).
Conjugation of rayer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | rayer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | rayant /ʁɛ.jɑ̃/ or /ʁe.jɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | rayé /ʁɛ.je/ or /ʁe.je/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | 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/ | rayiez /ʁɛj.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/ or /ʁe.ʁe/ | rayeras or raieras /ʁɛj.ʁa/ or /ʁɛ.ʁa/ or /ʁe.ʁa/ | rayera or raiera /ʁɛj.ʁa/ or /ʁɛ.ʁa/ or /ʁe.ʁa/ | rayerons or raierons /ʁɛj.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʁɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʁe.ʁɔ̃/ | rayerez or raierez /ʁɛj.ʁe/ or /ʁɛ.ʁe/ or /ʁe.ʁe/ | rayeront or raieront /ʁɛj.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʁɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʁe.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | rayerais or raierais /ʁɛj.ʁɛ/ or /ʁɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ʁe.ʁɛ/ | rayerais or raierais /ʁɛj.ʁɛ/ or /ʁɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ʁe.ʁɛ/ | rayerait or raierait /ʁɛj.ʁɛ/ or /ʁɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ʁe.ʁɛ/ | rayerions or raierions /ʁɛ.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ʁe.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ʁɛ.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ʁe.ʁjɔ̃/ | rayeriez or raieriez /ʁɛ.jə.ʁje/ or /ʁe.jə.ʁje/ or /ʁɛ.ʁje/ or /ʁe.ʁje/ | rayeraient or raieraient /ʁɛj.ʁɛ/ or /ʁɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ʁe.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/ | rayiez /ʁɛj.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 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
- avoir les dents qui rayent le parquet
- rayé
- rayure
Further reading
- “rayer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.