Present of aver

Level 1

Aver means to have and has six irregular forms.

How It Works

Person	Form	Example
ieu	ai	Ai dos libres.
tu	as	As una sòrre?
el, ela	a	Maria a un gat.
nosautres	avèm	Avèm una taula granda.
vosautres, vos	avètz	Avètz un libre?
eles, elas	an	An una sòrre.

Put the thing you have after the verb. The verb does not change for one or many things: Ai un libre and Ai dos libres. Mind the accents in avèm and avètz. The form a (he or she has) is spelled like the preposition a (to, at); the rest of the sentence shows which one it is.

Occitan uses aver where English uses "to be" for age (Ai vint ans) and for hunger or cold (Ai fam). Later, aver also helps build the compound past.

Examples (4)

Ai dos libres.
I have two books.
Ai is the I form.
Maria a un gat.
Maria has a cat.
A is the he or she form.
Avèm una taula granda.
We have a big table.
Avèm is the we form.
An una sòrre.
They have a sister.
An is the form for they.

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Present of averLevel 1

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Aver is a second table of six irregular forms, so the first one, èsser, comes first.

Present of èsser
Know the present of èsser, because aver gives a second table of six forms in the same slots: ai, as, a, avèm, avètz, an.
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