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”).
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havir
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-.
| 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 | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | havis /a.vi/ |
— | havissons /a.vi.sɔ̃/ |
havissez /a.vi.se/ |
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| 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 , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||