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effacer

effacer
to erase
From Lesson 87:Irregular action verbs (écrire, mettre)·French

Usages of effacer

Tu mets le fichier ici et tu l'effaces.
You put the file here and you erase it.
J'écris un mot, puis je l'efface.
I write a word, then I erase it.
Ils n'effacent pas le document.
They do not erase the document.
Le pire, c'est que mon collègue avait effacé le fichier.
The worst is that my colleague had erased the file.
J'ai perdu le fichier parce que l'ordinateur avait effacé la mémoire.
I lost the file because the computer had erased the memory.
Sauvegarde ton travail de peur qu'une erreur ne l'efface totalement.
Back up your work for fear that an error might completely erase it.
Mon collègue a failli effacer le fichier.
My colleague almost deleted the file.

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