'Venir De' + Present Tense
French: Cambridge International GCSE, topic 6.1.17
'Venir De' + Present Tense
Venir de + 'present tense' helps us say what has just happened.
Structure
- Venir de helps form the 'recent past' in French.
- We use venir de to talk about actions that just happened.
- The structure is:
- subject + venir (in present) + de + infinitive
Venir
- Venir is an irregular verb.
- je viens
- tu viens
- il/elle vient
- nous venons
- vous venez
- ils/elles viennent
Examples
- Je viens de manger.
- I have just eaten.
- Tu viens de finir tes devoirs.
- You have just finished your homework.