| A | B |
| avoir faim | to be hungry / to have hunger |
| avoir soif | to be thirsty / to have thirst |
| avoir chaud | to be warm / to have warmth |
| avoir froid | to be cold / to have coldness |
| avoir sommeil | to be sleepy, tired / to have sleepiness, tiredness |
| avoir de l'argent | to have money |
| avoir __ ans | to have a certain number of years |
| avoir raison | to be right / to have rightness, reason |
| avoir tort | to be wrong / to have wrongness, error |
| avoir envie de | to have envy/desire/want of |
| avoir besoin de | to have need of |
| avoir peur de | to have fear of / to be afraid of |
| avoir l'occasion de | to have the opportunity to |
| il y a | there is / there are |
| il n'y a pas de | there is not any / there are not any |
| avoir de la chance | to be lucky |
| avoir quelque chose | to have something (an object, an illness) |
| avoir du mal à la tete | to have a headache |