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Beginner French Post: Être Posted by Jennie on Aug 20, 2010

Bonjour beginners! In the last, inaugural Beginner’s Post, we explored the verb avoir (to have). Aujourd’hui (today), another crucial French verb: Être : to be. Conjugaison : Je suis : I am Tu es : You are (informal) Il/ elle/ on est : He/ she/ “they” are* Nous sommes : We are Vous êtes…

Auxiliaries Être and Avoir Posted by Transparent Language on Nov 17, 2008

In French, the verbs être and avoir are considered auxiliaries when followed by a past participle and, thus, used to form the perfect tenses much like have/has/had are auxiliaries in English. Just as have/has/had, être and avoir are also regular, normal verbs as well. AVOIR is the auxiliary that is used with most verbs. ÊTRE…