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effacer
effacer
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.fa.se/
Verb
effacer
Conjugation
This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which ‘c’ is softened to a ‘ç’ before the vowels ‘a’ and ‘o’.
Conjugation of effacer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | effacer | avoir effacé | |||||
| gerund | en effaçant | en ayant effacé | |||||
| present participle | effaçant /e.fa.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | effacé /e.fa.se/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | efface /e.fas/ |
effaces /e.fas/ |
efface /e.fas/ |
effaçons /e.fa.sɔ̃/ |
effacez /e.fa.se/ |
effacent /e.fas/ |
| imperfect | effaçais /e.fa.sɛ/ |
effaçais /e.fa.sɛ/ |
effaçait /e.fa.sɛ/ |
effacions /e.fa.sjɔ̃/ |
effaciez /e.fa.sje/ |
effaçaient /e.fa.sɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | effaçai /e.fa.se/ |
effaças /e.fa.sa/ |
effaça /e.fa.sa/ |
effaçâmes /e.fa.sam/ |
effaçâtes /e.fa.sat/ |
effacèrent /e.fa.sɛʁ/ |
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| future | effacerai /e.fa.sʁe/ |
effaceras /e.fa.sʁa/ |
effacera /e.fa.sʁa/ |
effacerons /e.fa.sʁɔ̃/ |
effacerez /e.fa.sʁe/ |
effaceront /e.fa.sʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | effacerais /e.fa.sʁɛ/ |
effacerais /e.fa.sʁɛ/ |
effacerait /e.fa.sʁɛ/ |
effacerions /e.fa.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
effaceriez /e.fa.sə.ʁje/ |
effaceraient /e.fa.sʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | efface /e.fas/ |
effaces /e.fas/ |
efface /e.fas/ |
effacions /e.fa.sjɔ̃/ |
effaciez /e.fa.sje/ |
effacent /e.fas/ |
| imperfect1 |
effaçasse /e.fa.sas/ |
effaçasses /e.fa.sas/ |
effaçât /e.fa.sa/ |
effaçassions /e.fa.sa.sjɔ̃/ |
effaçassiez /e.fa.sa.sje/ |
effaçassent /e.fa.sas/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | efface /e.fas/ |
— | effaçons /e.fa.sɔ̃/ |
effacez /e.fa.se/ |
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