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    1. Avoir is an auxiliary verb in French used to form several tenses including the perfect, pluperfect, future perfect, and conditional tenses. 2. As an auxiliary verb, avoir combines with the past participle of other verbs. For example, to form the perfect tense (passé composé), avoir is used with the past participle, such as j'ai mangé meaning "I ate". 3. Tables are provided listing the conjugations of avoir in the present, future, imperfect, preterite, perfect, pluperfect, future perfect, conditional, past conditional, imperative, present participle, subjunctive, and preterite subjunctive tenses.

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    1. Avoir is an auxiliary verb in French used to form several tenses including the perfect, pluperfect, future perfect, and conditional tenses. 2. As an auxiliary verb, avoir combines with the past participle of other verbs. For example, to form the perfect tense (passé composé), avoir is used with the past participle, such as j'ai mangé meaning "I ate". 3. Tables are provided listing the conjugations of avoir in the present, future, imperfect, preterite, perfect, pluperfect, future perfect, conditional, past conditional, imperative, present participle, subjunctive, and preterite subjunctive tenses.

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    1. Avoir is an auxiliary verb in French used to form several tenses including the perfect, pluperfect, future perfect, and conditional tenses. 2. As an auxiliary verb, avoir combines with the past participle of other verbs. For example, to form the perfect tense (passé composé), avoir is used with the past participle, such as j'ai mangé meaning "I ate". 3. Tables are provided listing the conjugations of avoir in the present, future, imperfect, preterite, perfect, pluperfect, future perfect, conditional, past conditional, imperative, present participle, subjunctive, and preterite subjunctive tenses.

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    1. Avoir is an auxiliary verb in French used to form several tenses including the perfect, pluperfect, future perfect, and conditional tenses. 2. As an auxiliary verb, avoir combines with the past participle of other verbs. For example, to form the perfect tense (passé composé), avoir is used with the past participle, such as j'ai mangé meaning "I ate". 3. Tables are provided listing the conjugations of avoir in the present, future, imperfect, preterite, perfect, pluperfect, future perfect, conditional, past conditional, imperative, present participle, subjunctive, and preterite subjunctive tenses.

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    The auxiliary verbs: 1. avoir.

    Auxiliaries are functional verbs that are added to other verbs in order to form particular tenses.

    1. Avoir
    Avoir - to have - is a verb with two roles

    Firstly it is a lexical verb in its own right, meaning "to have" or "to possess".
    Example: Il a trois chats et un chien - he has three cats and a dog.
    Secondly it is an auxiliary which combines with the past participle most French verbs to form certain
    tenses.
    Principal tenses formed using the auxiliary avoir:
    The perfect or composite past (pass compos). Formed with the presenttense of avoir and a past
    participle.
    Example: J'ai mang - I've eaten
    The pluperfect or past-perfect (pass antrieur). Formed with theimperfect tense of avoir and a
    past participle.
    Example: J'avais mang - I had eaten
    The future-perfect (futur antrieur). Formed with the future tense of avoir and a past participle.
    Example: J'aurai mang - I will have eaten
    The past conditional (pass conditionnel). Formed with the conditional tense of avoir and a past
    participle.
    Example: J'aurais mang - I would have eaten

    Verb tables: Avoir


    Note: For each tense, a sample English equivalent is given for the first person singular. This represents
    the most common translation of the tense in question, but not the only possibility.

    Table 1.
    Tenses (indicative) :
    Future
    (I will have)

    Person

    Present
    (I have)

    1st Singular.

    j'ai

    j'aurai

    j'avais

    2nd Singular

    tu as

    tu auras

    tu avais

    3rd Singular

    il / elle / on ... a

    il (..) aura

    il (..) avait

    1st plural
    2nd plural
    3rd plural

    Notes

    Table 2

    nous avons
    nous aurons
    vous avez
    vous aurez
    ils / elles ont
    ils auront
    Used as an
    auxiliary to form Used as an auxiliary to form the
    the perfect
    future-perfect (futur-antrieur
    (pass compos)
    tense)
    tense

    Imperfect
    (I had / was having)

    nous avions
    vous aviez
    ils avaient
    Used as an auxiliary to form the
    pluperfect or past perfect (pass
    antrieur) tense

    Tenses (indicative):
    Person

    Preterite
    (I had)

    Perfect (pass compos)


    (I have had)

    Pluperfect
    (I'd had)

    1st Singular.

    j'eus

    j'ai eu

    j'avais eu

    2nd Singular

    tu eus

    tu as eu

    tu avais eu

    3rd Singular

    il (..) eut

    il (..) a eu

    il avait eu

    1st plural

    nous emes

    nous avons eu

    nous avions eu

    2nd plural

    vous etes

    vous avez eu

    vous aviez eu

    3rd plural

    ils eurent

    ils ont eu

    ils avaient eu

    Notes

    Alternative auxiliary to form the


    pluperfect or past perfect
    (pass antrieur) tense.
    Not commonly used

    Table 3
    Person
    1st Singular.
    2nd Singular
    3rd Singular
    1st plural
    2nd plural
    3rd plural
    Notes

    Future perfect
    (I will have had)
    j'aurai eu
    tu auras eu
    il aura eu
    nous aurons eu
    vous aurez eu
    ils auront eu

    Tenses (indicative):
    Conditional
    (I would have)
    j'aurais
    tu aurais
    il aurait
    nous aurions
    vous auriez
    ils auraient

    Past conditional
    (I would have had)
    j'aurais eu
    tu aurais eu
    il aurait eu
    nous aurions eu
    vous auriez eu
    ils auraient eu

    Table 4
    Person
    2nd Singular
    1st plural
    2nd plural
    Notes

    Imperative
    (have)
    aies
    ayons
    ayez

    Present participle
    ayant

    Table 5
    Person
    1st Singular.

    Present
    (may have)
    aie

    Tenses (subjunctive) :
    preterite
    (might have)
    eusse

    Perfect (parfait)
    (may have had)
    aie eu

    2nd Singular
    3rd Singular
    1st plural
    2nd plural
    3rd plural
    Notes

    aies
    ait
    ayons
    ayez
    aient

    eusses
    et
    eussions
    eussiez
    eussent
    (rare)

    aies eu
    ait eu
    ayons eu
    ayez eu
    aient eu
    (rare)

    Further subjunctive cases - such as a pluperfect subjunctive - can theoretically be formed,


    though to all intents and purposes these are never used in modern French.
    Examples:
    We have a beautiful black cat
    - Nous avons un beau chat noir.
    Tomorrow I'll have plenty of time.
    Demain j'aurai beaucoup de temps.
    The professor had several research assistants
    Le professeur avait plusieurs assistants de recherche.
    You've had enough time !.
    Vous avez eu assez de temps.
    You'll have had enough of it by tomorrow.
    Vous en aurez eu assez d'ici demain..
    It's possible that he may have flu.
    Il est possible qu'il ait la grippe.
    Have some respect, please.
    Ayez du respect, s'il vous plat !.

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