effacer
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effacer
- to erase
- This verb is part of an group of irregular -er verbs, which differs from the regular in that the ‘c’ is softened to a ‘ç’ before the vowels ‘a’ and ‘o’.
Conjugation of effacer
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | effacer | avoir effacé | |||||
| gerund | en effaçant | Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| present participle | effaçant | ||||||
| past participle | effacé | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | efface | effaces | efface | effaçons | effacez | effacent |
| imperfect | effaçais | effaçais | effaçait | effacions | effaciez | effaçaient | |
| past historic | effaçai | effaças | effaça | effaçâmes | effaçâtes | effacèrent | |
| future | effacerai | effaceras | effacera | effacerons | effacerez | effaceront | |
| conditional | effacerais | effacerais | effacerait | effacerions | effaceriez | effaceraient | |
| 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 anterior | 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 | effaces | efface | effacions | effaciez | effacent |
| imperfect | effaçasse | effaçasses | effaçât | effaçassions | effaçassiez | effaçassent | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | efface | — | effaçons | effacez | — | ||
