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/

• Audio:

  (file)

Verb

rayer

1. to line, to make lines on, to mark with lines (e.g. a piece of paper)
2. 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.

3. 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		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (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.