Présent
What is happening now, habits, and general truths.
- je viens
- tu viens
- il / elle / on vient
- nous venons
- vous venez
- ils / elles viennent
« Il vient chez nous. »
to come
3rd group, irregular verb, auxiliary être, past participle venu.
Conjugated like devenir, tenir, revenir, obtenir, soutenir, appartenir
Several stems
Compare je viens, nous venons, ils viennent, je viendrai.
Auxiliary être
In compound tenses, the participle agrees with the subject: venu, venue, venus, venues.
Underlined: the stem is not the infinitive’s.
Enough to talk about the present, the past, and the future.
What is happening now, habits, and general truths.
« Il vient chez nous. »
The everyday past for a finished action.
« Hier, il est venu chez nous. »
The spoken future for plans and near events.
« Demain, il va venir chez nous. »
Past habits, descriptions, and ongoing background.
« Avant, il venait chez nous. »
Something that has just happened: venir de plus the infinitive.
« Il vient de venir chez nous. »
What will happen later, including promises and predictions.
« Demain, il viendra chez nous. »
Polite requests, wishes, and hypotheses: “would …”.
« Il viendrait chez nous si nécessaire. »
Orders, advice, and instructions. The subject in parentheses is not spoken.
A past action completed before another past action.
An action finished before a future moment: “will have …”.
Regrets and hypotheses that never happened: “would have …”.
After necessity, wishes, emotion, doubt, or conjunctions like bien que.
Subjunctive for an action already completed.
The written narrative past: novels, history, and fairy tales.
A literary action completed immediately before another past action.
Literary subjunctive used inside past-tense narration.
Literary subjunctive for an action completed before another.
Literary variant of the past conditional, matching the pluperfect subjunctive.