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French · Chapter 17 · Lesson 3 · Grammar primer

Venir de recent past

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The short version

The recent past runs on the present tense

Venir de plus an infinitive means to have just done something, and venir stays present: je viens de manger, il vient d'arriver. J'ai venu de manger is not French, because the recency already lives in venir de. Shift venir into the imperfect and you get had just instead.

Je viens de manger.

I have just eaten.

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