avoir
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[edit] French
[edit] Etymology
From Old French aveir < Latin habēre, present active infinitive of habeō (“‘have, hold, possess’”)
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Noun
avoir m. (plural avoirs)
[edit] Verb
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]")
[edit] Conjugation
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 | |||||
| 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 |
| imperfect | eusse | eusses | eût | eussions | eussiez | eussent | |
| 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 | – | |
| — | aie | — | ayons | ayez | — | ||
[edit] Derived terms
Look at pages starting with avoir.

