/vəniʁ/
Translation
to come
Word origin
From Latin venire ('to come').
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- venire
- English cognates
- venue, convene, advent
Grammar
Conjugation
Regular french-irregular conjugation. Pronouns: je, tu, il/elle, nous, vous, ils/elles.
Indicative
| Person | Present | Imperfect | Past historic | Future | Conditional |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| je | viens | venais | vins | viendrai | viendrais |
| tu | viens | venais | vins | viendras | viendrais |
| il/elle | vient | venait | vint | viendra | viendrait |
| nous | venons | venions | vînmes | viendrons | viendrions |
| vous | venez | veniez | vîntes | viendrez | viendriez |
| ils/elles | viennent | venaient | vinrent | viendront | viendraient |
Subjunctive
| Person | Present | Imperfect |
|---|---|---|
| je | vienne | vinsse |
| tu | viennes | vinsses |
| il/elle | vienne | vînt |
| nous | venions | vinssions |
| vous | veniez | vinssiez |
| ils/elles | viennent | vinssent |
Imperative
| Person | Affirmative |
|---|---|
| tu | viens |
| nous | venons |
| vous | venez |
Non-finite
- Gerund / present participle
- venant
- Past participle
- venu · venue · venus · venues
Examples
?
Would you like to come with us this evening?
.
I have just finished my report.
Londres, .
She comes from London, not from Paris.
tous .
They come every year in summer.
- ' ?
Can you come and help me carry these boxes?
Where this fits
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French Future Tense: Futur Proche, Futur Simple, and the Irregular Stems
Infinitive or Subjunctive: The French Same-Subject Rule
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French Irregular Verbs: The Core Set, the -ir Split and the Patterns That Repeat
French Passé Composé: avoir or être + Past Participle and the MRS VANDERTRAMP Set
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The French Pluperfect (le plus-que-parfait): The Past Before the Past
j'aurais dû, tu aurais pu: French Regrets and Reproaches
Reported Questions and Commands in French
French Stressed Pronouns: moi, toi, lui, elle, nous, vous, eux, elles
The French Subjunctive After Doubt, Emotion and Opinion
The French Subjunctive After Necessity and Will
The French Subjunctive in Relative Clauses
The French Present Subjunctive: How to Form It
French Time Expressions: depuis, pendant, il y a and pour
Venir de + Infinitive: the French Recent Past (to have just done something)
French Verbs with à, de or Nothing Before an Infinitive
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