Probably you are thinking of "as-tu" which is the inverted form of "tu as" as used in questions like: "Quel age as-tu?" (literally: What age have you? - figuratively: How old are you?)
The verb "to have" is avoir.
"Ah-vwahr" is the pronunciation of the French word avoir.Specifically, the French word is a verb. It is the present form of the infinitive. The French word means "to have" in English.
It's the infinitive of the verb "to have". As in the famous quote from the French playwright Molière: "Avoir ou ne pas avoir" (to have or not to have). Nah, just kidding! "Avoir" can a noun very rarely, meaning "possessions" (your "havings") such as your financial worth.
The French word for "to have" is "avoir." This is an irregular verb: j'ai, tu as, il a, nous avons, vous avez, ils ont. http://machaut.uchicago.edu/?tense=IndP&verb=avoir&action=search&resource=conjugator
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By using the auxiliary verbs "avoir" or "être" and the participe passé of the verb at hand. If your word ends in 'er' like regarder and aller, you remove the 'r' and add an acute accent on the 'e'.
the french word is "a" from the verb "avoir" she has blond hair = elle a les cheveux blonds he has a bike = il a un vélo.
The word 'je' is a personal pronoun. Its equivalent in English is I. The word 'avoir' is the infinitive form of the verb. Its equivalent in English is to have. The phrase 'j'ai' is the French equivalent of the English 'I have'.
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the french word is "avoir"
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The phrase 'avoir honte' means to be ashamed. In the word-by-word translation, the verb 'avoir' means 'to have'. The noun 'honte' means 'shame'.