havoir
French
editVerb
edithavoir
- (obsolete) Rare spelling of avoir.
- 1845, Xavier Boniface Varin, Jean-Baptiste Dubois de Jancigny, Une nuit terrible: vaudeville en 1 acte, page 14:
- Vous havez dit la Belle-Poule!
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1858, Jean Pierre Gaberel, Histoire de la réformation de Genève de 1532 à 1536, page 132:
- Vous savez que vous havez heu ung évesque prince, avec toute autorité
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1857, Felix Bourguelot, Memoires de Claude Haton contenant le recit, page 1102:
- […] je vous prie achever ce que vous havez commencé et me fayre donner quelque honeste degré de servitude en sa maison […]
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
editConjugation of havoir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | havoir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | hayant /ɛ.jɑ̃/ or /e.jɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | heu /y/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | hai /e/ |
has /a/ |
ha /a/ |
havons /a.vɔ̃/ |
havez /a.ve/ |
hont /ɔ̃/ |
| imperfect | havais /a.vɛ/ |
havais /a.vɛ/ |
havait /a.vɛ/ |
havions /a.vjɔ̃/ |
haviez /a.vje/ |
havaient /a.vɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | heus /y/ |
heus /y/ |
heut /y/ |
heûmes /ym/ |
heûtes /yt/ |
heurent /yʁ/ | |
| future | haurai /ɔ.ʁe/ or /o.ʁe/ |
hauras /ɔ.ʁa/ or /o.ʁa/ |
haura /ɔ.ʁa/ or /o.ʁa/ |
haurons /ɔ.ʁɔ̃/ or /o.ʁɔ̃/ |
haurez /ɔ.ʁe/ or /o.ʁe/ |
hauront /ɔ.ʁɔ̃/ or /o.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | haurais /ɔ.ʁɛ/ or /o.ʁɛ/ |
haurais /ɔ.ʁɛ/ or /o.ʁɛ/ |
haurait /ɔ.ʁɛ/ or /o.ʁɛ/ |
haurions /ɔ.ʁjɔ̃/ or /o.ʁjɔ̃/ |
hauriez /ɔ.ʁje/ or /o.ʁje/ |
hauraient /ɔ.ʁɛ/ or /o.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 | haie /ɛ/ |
haies /ɛ/ |
hait /ɛ/ |
hayons /ɛ.jɔ̃/ or /e.jɔ̃/ |
hayez /ɛ.je/ or /e.je/ |
haient /ɛ/ |
| imperfect2 | heusse /ys/ |
heusses /ys/ |
heût /y/ |
heussions /y.sjɔ̃/ |
heussiez /y.sje/ |
heussent /ys/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | haie /ɛ/ |
— | hayons /ɛ.jɔ̃/ or /e.jɔ̃/ |
hayez /ɛ.je/ or /e.je/ |
— | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Middle French
editVerb
edithavoir
- Rare spelling of avoir.