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Back to Basics with Être and Avoir
This week, we’re getting ready for la rentrée by going back to the basics of French conjugation: verbs Être and Avoir 😋
On top of being the most ubiquitous verbs of the French language, être and avoir can also boast having some of the most irregular conjugations! The good news is that mastering them opens up your French universe exponentially, from speaking in compound tenses to using colloquial expressions 😊
Alors, sans plus attendre, let’s be thorough and have a closer look at the essential French Kwiziq content we’ve selected for you! 😊
How to Use the French Verbs Être and Avoir
French Verb Conjugation Essentials
Let’s start our (re-)discovery of these two ubiquitous (and, of course, most irregular) verbs of the French language: être and avoir, with this fantastically comprehensive conjugation-essentials page:
How to Use the French Verbs Être and Avoir [+ Practice]
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Verbs Être and Avoir in all tenses – A1 to B2 Levels
Now that you’ve reviewed how to use Être and Avoir, it’s time to practise conjugating these irregular verbs correctly! Let’s start with a little conversation packed with examples:
“- Je suis content que tu sois là !
– Oui, je n’étais pas sûre de pouvoir venir, car j’avais une grosse migraine cet après-midi, mais j’ai de la chance, les médicaments ont eu l’effet escompté !
– Ça aurait été dommage de rater cette soirée ! Je n’avais pas eu la possibilité de venir l’année dernière, donc je n’aurais manqué ça pour rien au monde !
– Et encore, tu n’as pas tout vu ! À la fin de la soirée, il y aura le traditionnel feu d’artifice. Ce sera spectaculaire !
– Super ! Je serai aux premières loges cette fois !”
To learn more and/or refresh your memory on this topic, here’s not one, but 2 personalised Notebooks on Être and Avoir in all tenses, full of the related Kwiziq lessons, to test yourself against!
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Let’s fill in some blanks!
When to use Avoir vs Être – A2 Level
And now, to complete your mastery of Avoir and Être, practise talking about your feelings while choosing correctly between these two verbs in the fill-in-the-blank exercise below:
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