havoir

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French

Verb

havoir

  1. (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

Conjugation 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 – tu – nous vous –
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:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Middle French

Verb

havoir

  1. Rare spelling of avoir.
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