You're listening to the Coffee Break French Verbefix, this is season 1 episode 4 and we're

looking at the Verbe Avouard!

Salut tout le monde, welcome back to the Coffee Break French Verbefix, this is the show,

which will give you your weekly fix of Coffee Break French and help you sort out your verbs

so that you can use them accurately and effectively in your spoken and written French.

Moi, je m'appelle Marc, je suis votre professeur, et je vais vous aider avec vos verbes français.

Now so far on the Verbefix, we've been looking at regular verbs, verbs which follow the same

patterns and you can predict exactly how they'll be conjugated.

But in today's show, we are introducing you to your first irregular verb,

a verb that I'm sure you're familiar with, Avouard, to have.

Avouard is an irregular verb, and that means that the patterns that the verb follows

aren't quite as predictable, as the patterns of the verbs we've covered so far.

Indeed, sometimes, irregular verbs can be completely different from what you would expect,

but I'm sure you'll still begin to see telltale signs of particular tenses or indeed of

particular persons within these conjugations. With Avouard, as usual, we'll be looking at the

present, the perfect, the imperfect, and the future tense. So let's begin now with the present tense

of Avouard. So we're talking about the present tense of the verb Avouard, meaning to have.

So this is translating, I have, you have, he has, she has, you see it's even irregular in English,

we have, you have, they have, and it's also translating the idea of, do you have

in a question form, or indeed, I am having using a continuous form of the verb.

In French, all of these are translated by the straight forward present tense and for Avouard,

that is G. Now watch that is, G apostrophe A-I, G, I have, you have is tu-a, tu-a, that's A-S.

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