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Conjugation
Objective: Conjugate venir across all six persons, distinguish venir from venir de and venir de plus a place, and form the passé récent with an infinitive.
| Pronoun | Form | English | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| je | viens | I come | singular stem |
| tu | viens | you come | singular stem |
| il / elle / on | vient | he, she, one comes | singular stem with -t |
| nous | venons | we come | plural stem, single n |
| vous | venez | you come | plural stem, single n |
| ils / elles | viennent | they come | doubled n |
The wrong sentence is grammatical but carries the origin reading rather than the intended one. The passé récent requires venir de followed by an infinitive, not by a place name.
The wrong sentence is grammatical but carries the passé récent reading rather than the origin one. Before a noun, de and le contract to du, producing du dîner.
Venir de followed by a city expresses origin. The first-person singular form is viens.
The masculine country takes the article le, and de contracts with it to produce du.
Venir de plus an infinitive forms the passé récent. The de elides to d' before the vowel-initial infinitive arriver.
The passé récent covers an action completed moments ago. The verb venir stays in the present tense.
The third-person plural doubles the n, producing viennent, matching the pattern of prennent and tiennent.
6 exercises · about 9 minutes
The third-person plural of venir doubles the n, producing viennent, matching the pattern of prennent and tiennent.
Venir de covers only the immediate past, so il y a deux heures requires the passé composé instead.
Venir alone means to come in the sense of moving toward the speaker. No preposition follows.
The passé récent works with any infinitive. Here de stays unelided before the consonant-initial recevoir.
Both cities take de directly, without contraction. The question asks about origin rather than the recent past.