havir

See also: havíř

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French havir, from Old French havir (“to desire ardently”), either from Old French have ("pale; dull"; > French hâve) or from Frankish *haiju (“heat, burning”), akin to Old High German heiēn (“to dry; scorch; desiccate; singe”).

Pronunciation

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Verb

havir

1. to singe

   Synonyms: brûler, roussir

Conjugation

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

Conjugation of havir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	havir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	havissant /a.vi.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		havi /a.vi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	havis /a.vi/	havis /a.vi/	havit /a.vi/	havissons /a.vi.sɔ̃/	havissez /a.vi.se/	havissent /a.vis/
	imperfect	havissais /a.vi.sɛ/	havissais /a.vi.sɛ/	havissait /a.vi.sɛ/	havissions /a.vi.sjɔ̃/	havissiez /a.vi.sje/	havissaient /a.vi.sɛ/
	past historic2	havis /a.vi/	havis /a.vi/	havit /a.vi/	havîmes /a.vim/	havîtes /a.vit/	havirent /a.viʁ/
	future	havirai /a.vi.ʁe/	haviras /a.vi.ʁa/	havira /a.vi.ʁa/	havirons /a.vi.ʁɔ̃/	havirez /a.vi.ʁe/	haviront /a.vi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	havirais /a.vi.ʁɛ/	havirais /a.vi.ʁɛ/	havirait /a.vi.ʁɛ/	havirions /a.vi.ʁjɔ̃/	haviriez /a.vi.ʁje/	haviraient /a.vi.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	havisse /a.vis/	havisses /a.vis/	havisse /a.vis/	havissions /a.vi.sjɔ̃/	havissiez /a.vi.sje/	havissent /a.vis/
	imperfect2	havisse /a.vis/	havisses /a.vis/	havît /a.vi/	havissions /a.vi.sjɔ̃/	havissiez /a.vi.sje/	havissent /a.vis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	havis /a.vi/	—	havissons /a.vi.sɔ̃/	havissez /a.vi.se/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “havir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.