What’s on the Avoir & Être poster
A 6-row table: Person · avoir (have) · être (be).
Irregular, high-frequency, and required for the passé composé — so worth the memorisation.
- je — j'ai — je suis
- tu — tu as — tu es
- il / elle — il a — il est
- nous — nous avons — nous sommes
- vous — vous avez — vous êtes
- ils / elles — ils ont — ils sont
Most verbs form the past with avoir. Movement and reflexive verbs use être — and then the participle must agree.
Questions about the Avoir & Être poster
- What’s on the Avoir & Être poster?
- A 6-row table: Person · avoir (have) · être (be). Irregular, high-frequency, and required for the passé composé — so worth the memorisation. je — j'ai — je suis; tu — tu as — tu es; il / elle — il a — il est; nous — nous avons — nous sommes; vous — vous avez — vous êtes; ils / elles — ils ont — ils sont. Most verbs form the past with avoir. Movement and reflexive verbs use être — and then the participle must agree.
- Who is the Avoir & Être poster for?
- Avoir & Être belongs to the Languages section rather than to a school year, because languages is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning french can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Avoir & Être poster?
- These two carry the perfect tense as well. Memorise both columns cold. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Avoir & Être belongs on the wall where that languages work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Avoir & Être?
- Adjective Placement, Articles and The Verbs You Need First sit alongside Avoir & Être in the Languages section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Adjective PlacementArticlesThe Verbs You Need First
- Is the Avoir & Être poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Avoir & Être downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Languages section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Avoir & Être poster print at?
- Avoir & Être is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Avoir & Être loses nothing.Printing guide
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