The French for erase is the regular ER verb effacer.
To remember this, imagine you erase A FACE! effacer can also mean: to rub out, to blot out, to efface, to wipe out, to clear. Related words include:
- s'effacer (vr) : to rub out, to fade, to wear off, to disappear.
- l'effacement (nm) : deletion, erasure, self-effacement, withdrawal.
- effaçable (adj): erasable, removable./l'effaceur (d'encre) (nm): correction pen.
About 143 ER verbs end in CER. Before the letter a or o, the c changes to ç so that the c remains soft (like the c in cedilla rather than c in cat). Examples of these verb conjugations: bercer, effacer, enfoncer, foncer, menacer, pincer, remplacer.
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