balayer

== French == === Etymology === From balai +‎ -er. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ba.lɛ.je/ ~ /ba.le.je/ === Verb === balayer to sweep to sweep aside, brush aside (of a long skirt) to drag on the floor (military) to rake (sweep with gunfire) (politics) to make a clean sweep ==== 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). ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== balai === Further reading === “balayer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012