How it works
Avoir in bubble letters on one sideways sheet, for the verb wall of a French class: five letters, none twice, so a banner is five sheets. Fredoka, the opening font, keeps a small white ring in the o.
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A present-tense chart on two sheets
After your first print, open French verb words in bubble letters. j'ai / tu as / il a prints the three singular forms on one sheet and nous avons / vous avez / ils ont the three plural ones, under Présent. Each form is also a card of its own, with elle a, on a and elles ont. Passé / composé and j'ai eu start the next chart.
Where French says have and English says be
Avoir / faim is to be hungry, Avoir / soif thirsty, Avoir / chaud hot, Avoir / froid cold, Avoir / peur afraid, Avoir / sommeil sleepy, Avoir / raison right and Avoir / tort wrong. Age works the same way: J'ai / dix ans is I am ten. il y a means there is. Être, Aller and Faire head three more verb charts.
- il a and j'ai print tallest of the row and nous avons smallest, in all three fonts.
- In Chewy the singular and plural sheets print at nearly one letter size; in Fredoka the singular forms come out about a quarter larger.
- On means we in everyday French and takes the form of il and elle: on a.
Questions and answers
How do you draw Avoir in bubble letters?
Pencil A-v-o-i-r with a wide gap after each letter. Round every stroke into a fat outline, keep a ring inside the A and the o, set a round dot over the i, then rub out the pencil.
How do you conjugate avoir in the present tense?
J'ai, tu as, il a, elle a, on a, nous avons, vous avez, ils ont, elles ont. The past participle is eu.
What does avoir mean in English?
To have. It comes from the Latin habere, and it is also the helping verb for the compound tenses of most French verbs: j'ai parlé is I spoke.
Is it j'ai or je ai?
J'ai. Before a vowel je drops its e and takes an apostrophe, and in writing that is required.