avoir

[edit] French

From Old French aveir < Latin habēre, present active infinitive of habeō (“‘have, hold, possess’”)

avoir m. (plural avoirs)

avoir

(transitive) to have (to own)

Je veux avoir 20 dollars - I want to have 20 dollars
(intransitive) to have to

Il va avoir à faire les courses. - He will have to do the shopping.
(auxiliary) to have (auxiliary verb to form compound past tenses of most verbs)

j'ai parlé - I have spoken
To be; to be aged (speaking of age)

Elle a 19 ans. - She is 19 [years old] (Literally, "She has 19 [years]")

Conjugation of avoir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		avoir			avoir eu
gerund		en ayant			Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle
present participle		ayant
past participle		eu
person		singular			plural
person		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	ai	as	a	avons	avez	ont
	imperfect	avais	avais	avait	avions	aviez	avaient
	past historic	eus	eus	eut	eûmes	eûtes	eurent
	future	aurai	auras	aura	aurons	aurez	auront
	conditional	aurais	aurais	aurait	aurions	auriez	auraient
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	aie	aies	ait	ayons	ayez	aient
simple tenses	imperfect	eusse	eusses	eût	eussions	eussiez	eussent
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
compound tenses	pluperfect	Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
imperative		—	aie	—	ayons	ayez	—