{"id":135,"date":"2009-10-06T14:24:53","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T18:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=132"},"modified":"2009-10-06T14:24:53","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T18:24:53","slug":"lets-talk-about-verbs-venir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/lets-talk-about-verbs-venir\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Talk About Verbs &#8211; Venir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Je <strong>viens de<\/strong> mettre mes filles au lit. <\/em>I have just put my girls in bed.<\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Venir de<\/em><em> <\/em>conjugated in the present tense and followed by the infinitive is the equivalent of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">to have just + past participle<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Elle vient d&#8217;arriver.<\/em> (She has just arrived.)<br \/>\n<em>Ils viennent de faire leurs devoirs.<\/em> (They have just done their homework.)<\/p>\n<p>It is an irregular <em>-ir<\/em> verb and is conjugated in the present tense like this:<\/p>\n<p><em>je <strong>viens<br \/>\n<em>tu <strong>viens<br \/>\n<em>il\/elle\/on <strong>vient<br \/>\n<em>nous <strong>venons<br \/>\n<em>vous <strong>venez<br \/>\n<em>ils\/elles <strong>viennent<\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>There are other verbs that are conjugated in the present tense in the same way; in other words, with the same suffixes, and they are: <em>devenir<\/em> (to become), <em>revenir<\/em> (to come back), <em>se souvenir de<\/em> (to remember), <em>tenir<\/em> (to hold) and <em>obtenir <\/em>(to obtain).<\/p>\n<p>Why don&#8217;t you give us an example sentence using one of these verbs in a comment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Je viens de mettre mes filles au lit. I have just put my girls in bed. Venir de conjugated in the present tense and followed by the infinitive is the equivalent of to have just + past participle. Elle vient d&#8217;arriver. (She has just arrived.) Ils viennent de faire leurs devoirs. (They have just done&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/lets-talk-about-verbs-venir\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[428,429,450,461],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-grammar","tag-french-verb-conjugation","tag-french-verbs","tag-have-just-in-french","tag-how-to-conjugate-venir"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}