aver
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈvɜː/
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
Verb
aver (third-person singular simple present avers, present participle averring, simple past and past participle averred)
- To assert the truth of, to affirm with confidence; to declare in a positive manner.
- 1819 CE, Percy Shelley, Peter Bell the Third:
- The Devil, I safely can aver, / Has neither hoof, nor tail, nor sting.
- 1939, The Wizard of Oz, written by Noel Langley; Florence Ryerson; Edgar Allan Woolf, MGM/Warner Home Video:
- As Coroner, I must aver, I thoroughly examined her.
- 1997, Frederic W.; Roberta B. Case, Trilliums, →ISBN:
- Small (1933) avers T. simile to be deliciously fragrant, a quality we have not noticed in our plants.
- 2019 April 14, Alex McLevy, “Winter is here on Game Of Thrones' final season premiere (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club:
- when Yara tells him he picked the losing side, he avers that he might just as soon head back to the Iron Islands—“But first, I’m gonna fuck the queen”
- (law) To prove or justify a plea.
- 2007 July 26, European Court of Human Rights, Peev. v. Bulgaria, number 64209/01, marginal 19:
- In the meantime, on 5 June 2000, the applicant had brought a civil action against the Prosecutor's Office. He alleged that the termination of his contract had been unlawful and sought reinstatement and compensation for loss of salary. He averred, inter alia, that the climate in the Supreme Cassation Prosecutor's Office had deteriorated as a result of the actions of the Chief Prosecutor.
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- (obsolete) To avouch, prove, or verify; to offer to verify.
Related terms
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<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/veracious' title='veracious'>veracious</a>
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<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/verification' title='verification'>verification</a>
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<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/verism' title='verism'>verism</a>
<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/veritable' title='veritable'>veritable</a>
<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/veritably' title='veritably'>veritably</a>
<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/veritas' title='veritas'>veritas</a>
<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/verity' title='verity'>verity</a>
<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/very' title='very'>very</a>
<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/voir_dire' title='voir dire'>voir dire</a>
<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/warlock' title='warlock'>warlock</a>
Translations
to assert the truth of, to affirm with confidence; to declare in a positive manner
to prove or justify a plea
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to avouch, prove, or verify; to offer to verify
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Etymology 2
Borrowed from Old French aveir (French avoir), substantive use of the verb, from Latin habeō (“to have, hold, keep”). See cattle and chattel.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈeɪvə/
Etymology 3
Related to Late Latin averia (“cattle”).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [ˈeɪvɚ]
Corsican
Conjugation
infinitive | aver |
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present participle | avendu |
past participle | avutu |
Present indicative | Past indicative | Present subjunctive | Past subjunctive | |
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First-person singular | aghju | avia | abbia | avissi |
Second-person singular | ai, ha | avii | abbia | avissi, avisse |
Third-person singular | hà | avia | abbia | avissi |
First-person plural | avemu | aviamu | abbiamu | avissimu |
Second-person plural | avete | aviate | abbiate | avissite |
Third-person plural | anu | avianu | abbianu | avissinu |
Ladino
Etymology
From Old Spanish aver, from Latin habeō (“hold, have”).
Norman
Alternative forms
- aveir (Guernsey)
Etymology
From Old French aveir, from Latin habeō (“have, hold, possess”).
Conjugation
infinitive | aver | ||||||
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gerund | ayant | ||||||
auxiliary | aver | ||||||
past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
singular | ieu | — | |||||
plural | — | — | |||||
singular | plural | ||||||
1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
indicative | jé (j') | tu (tu') | il (i'), oulle (ou) |
jé (j') | ous (ou) | il' (i') | |
present | ai | as | a | avons | avez | ont | |
imperfect | avais | avais | avait | avions | aviez | avaient | |
preterite | eus | eus | eut | eûnmes | eûtes | eûtent | |
future | éthai | éthas | étha | éthons | éthez | éthont | |
conditional | éthais | éthais | éthait | éthions | éthiez | éthaient | |
subjunctive | qué j' | qué tu' | qu'il, qu'oulle |
qué j' | qu'ous | qu'il' | |
present | aie | aies | ait | ayons | ayiz | aient | |
imperfect | eûsse | eûsses | eûsse | eûssions | eûssyiz or eûssiez | eûssent | |
imperative | — | tu' | — | j' | ous | — | |
affirmative | ai | ayons | ayiz or ayez |
Derived terms
- aver bouonne main (“to have green fingers”)
- aver cours (“to be legal tender”)
- aver d's ièrs dé caûque-souothis (“to have good eyesight”)
- aver l's ièrs pus grands qué l'ventre (“to have eyes bigger than one's belly”)
- aver l'tchoeu d'vômi (“to feel sick”)
- aver l'vent souôs vèrgue (“to scud before the wind”)
- aver un yi tchi dit m'luque à l'aut' (“to have a squint”)
Occitan
Etymology
From Old Occitan aver, haver, from Latin habeō (“to have, hold, keep”).
Conjugation
Conjugation of aver
infinitive | aver | ||||||
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present participle | avent | ||||||
past participle | agut | ||||||
person | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | ieu | tu | el/ela | nosautres nos |
vosautres vos |
eles/elas | |
present | ai | as | a | avèm | avètz | an | |
imperfect | aviái | aviás | aviá | aviam | aviatz | avián | |
future | aurai | auràs | aurà | aurem | auretz | auràn | |
preterite | aguèri | aguères | aguèt | aguèrem | aguèretz | aguèron | |
conditional | auriái | auriás | auriá | auriam | auriatz | aurián | |
subjunctive | ieu | tu | el/ela | nosautres nos |
vosautres vos |
eles/elas | |
present | aja | ajas | aja | ajam | ajatz | ajan | |
imperfect | aguèsse | aguèsses | aguèsse | aguèssem | aguèssetz | aguèsson | |
imperative | — | tu | — | nosautres | vosautres vos |
— | |
— | aja | — | ajam | ajatz | — | ||
Synonyms
- (to possess): possedir
Old French
Noun
aver m (oblique plural avers, nominative singular avers, nominative plural aver)
- Alternative form of avoir
- c. 1150, Thomas d'Angleterre, Le Roman de Tristan, page 216 (of the Champion Classiques edition, ISBN 2-7453-0520-4, line 2832:
- de ses avers li volt mustrer.
- he wants to show his possessions to her.
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Old Occitan
Alternative forms
Verb
aver
- to have; to possess
- circa 1185, Guerau de Cabrera, Ensenhamen:
- Jes gran saber
no potz aver,
si fors non eis de ta reion.- (please add an English translation of this quote)
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Old Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aˈβ̞e̞ɾ/
Portuguese
Verb
aver (first-person singular present indicative ei, past participle avido)
- Obsolete spelling of haver
Conjugation
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Spanish
Venetian
Alternative forms
Conjugation
- Venetian conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.
Conjugation of aver (irregular)
infinitive | aver | |||||
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auxiliary verb | aver | gerund | avéndo | |||
past participle | vùo, avudo, vudo, vù | |||||
person | singular | plural | ||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | |
indicative | mi | ti | eło / eła | noialtri / noialtre | voialtri / voialtre | łuri / łore |
present | go, ò | (te) ghè, (te) ga | (el/ła) ga, (el/ła) à | avémo, gavémo, òn, avòn | avì | (i/łe) ga, (i/łe) à |
imperfect | avéa, gavéa | (te) avivi, (te) avevi | (el/ła) avéa, (el/ła) gavéa | avévimo | avivi, avevi | (i/łe) avéa, (i/łe) gavéa |
future | avarò | (te) avarè | (el/ła) avarà | avarémo, avaròn | avarè | (i/łe) avarà |
conditional | mi | ti | eło / eła | noialtri / noialtre | voialtri / voialtre | łuri / łore |
present | avarìa, averàve, gavaria | (te) avarisi | (el/ła) avarìa, (el/ła) averàve, (el/ła) gavaria | avarìsimo | avarisi | (i/łe) avarìa, (i/łe) averàve, (i/łe) gavaria |
subjunctive | che mi | che ti | che eło / eła | che noialtri / noialtre | che voialtri / voialtre | che łuri / łore |
present | abia | (te) abi | (el/ła) abia | avémo | avì | (i/łe) abia |
imperfect | avése | (te) avisi | (el/ła) avése | avésimo | avisi | (i/łe) avése |
imperative | — | ti | eło / eła | noialtri / noialtre | voialtri / voialtre | łuri / łore |
— | (te) abi | (el/ła) abia | avémo | avì | (i/łe) abia |
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