venir

• vinre

Inherited from Latin venīre.

• IPA^(key): /beˈni(ɾ)/
• Syllabification: ve‧nir
• Rhymes: -i(ɾ)

venir

1. (intransitive) to come

   Va venir fa dos días ― (He/she) came two days ago

• intervenir

Inherited from Latin venīre.

• IPA^(key): /beˈniɾ/ [beˈniɾ]
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: ve‧nir

venir

1. to come

• vindre

Inherited from Latin venīre.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [bəˈni]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [vəˈni]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [veˈniɾ]

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venir (first-person singular present vinc, first-person singular preterite vinguí, past participle vingut); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/

1. (intransitive) to come

• intervenir
• revenir

• “venir”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “venir”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “venir” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “venir” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• vegnir (ORB, broad)

Inherited from Latin venīre.

venir (ORB, broad)

1. to come

• venir in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• venir in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Inherited from Middle French venir, from Old French venir, from Latin venīre.

• IPA^(key): /və.niʁ/, (informal) /vniʁ/

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• Rhymes: -iʁ

venir

1. (intransitive) to come (to move from one place to another that is nearer the speaker)

   Viens vivre avec moi en France. ― Come live with me in France.

2. See venir de.

This is a verb in a group of -ir verbs. All verbs ending in -venir, such as convenir and devenir, are conjugated this way. Such verbs are the only verbs whose past historic and subjunctive imperfect endings do not start with one of these thematic vowels: -a-, -i-, -u-.

• Haitian Creole: vin, vini
• ⇒ English: venue

• “venir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• verni

• IPA^(key): /veˈnir/

venir

1. past infinitive of venar

venir

1. to come

   Antonym: ir

• IPA^(key): /veˈnir/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ir
• Hyphenation: ve‧nìr

venir (apocopated)

1. apocopic form of venire

• Nervi, nervi, verni

• vinir

Inherited from Old Spanish venir (“to come”), from Latin venīre. Cognate with Spanish venir.

venir (Hebrew spelling ב׳יניר)^[1]

1. (intransitive, reflexive) to come (to move towards someone or something)
   • 1982, Enrique Saporta y Beja, En torno de la torre blanca‎^[1], Editions Vidas Largas, page 71:

     Venian de Sitchilya, pechkavan en la mar i traian sus pechka a Selanik.

     They came from Sicily, fishing in the sea and shleping their fish to Thessaloniki.

   • 2004, Moshe David Gaon, פואזיאס‎^[2], מכון מעלה אדומים בשיתוף עם מרכז משה דוד גאון לתרבות הלאדינו, אוניברסיטת בן גוריון, →ISBN, page 17:

     dirijir se vienen para el konvento.

     They came to guide the convent.

From Old French venir.

venir

1. to come (go to a specified location)

   Coordinate term: aller

• French: venir
  • Haitian Creole: vin, vini
  • ⇒ English: venue

From Old French venir, from Latin venīre.

venir

1. to come

From Old Occitan venir, from Latin venīre.

• IPA^(key): /beˈni/

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venir

1. to come

Inherited from Latin venīre. Attested since AD 881 (Sequence of Saint Eulalia).

venir

1. to come; to arrive
   • 13th century, Unknown, La Vie de Saint Laurent, page 10, column 1, line 2:

     Quant Saint Lorenz i est venu

     When Saint Laurence arrived

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has a stressed present stem vien distinct from the unstressed stem ven, as well as other irregularities. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• Bourguignon: veindre, veni, veinre
• Middle French: venir
  • French: venir
    • Haitian Creole: vin, vini
    • ⇒ English: venue
• Norman: v'nîn, vénîn (Jersey), v'nir (Guernsey), v'nir, v'nîn (Jersey)
• Walloon: vni

Inherited from Latin venīre.

venir

1. to come (arrive at a given location)

• Occitan: venir

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “venīre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 14: U–Z, page 240

Inherited from Latin venīre.

• IPA^(key): /βeˈniɾ/

venir

1. to come
   • between 1140-1207, Anonymous (or Per Abbat), Cantar de mío Cid line 3668:

     Essora dixo el Rey venid uos ami compaña
     (modernized spelling) Esora dijo el rey, venidvos (=veníos) a mi compaña

     At that moment, the king said, "Come, both of you, to my company (=to accompany me)..."

   • between 1140-1207, Anonymous (or Per Abbat), Cantar de mío Cid lines 1943-1944:

     Con todo esto auos dixo alfonsso / q̃ uos vernie avistas do ouiessedes sabor
     (modernized spelling) Con todo esto, a vos dijo Alfonso que vos vernié (=vendría) a vistas do hobiésedes (=hubieseis) sabor

     With all this, (king) Alphonse said that he'd come to see you wherever you'd like

• Ladino: venir, ב׳יניר
• Spanish: venir

Inherited from Old French venir, from Latin venire.

venir

1. to come

• Piveteau, Vianney (1996), Dicopoitevin‎^[3] (in French)

From Old Spanish venir, from Latin venīre. Cognate with Ladino venir.

• IPA^(key): /beˈniɾ/ [beˈniɾ]

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• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: ve‧nir

venir (first-person singular present vengo, first-person singular preterite vine, past participle venido)

1. (intransitive) to come (to move towards the speaker)

   ven aquí / ven acá ― come here

3. (reflexive, slang) to achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate

Unlike the English verb "to come", which can signify movement towards the speaker, the listener, or another mentioned place, venir always references movement towards the speaker. To indicate movement towards the listener or another location, use ir (“to go”):

• Él va hacia ti.

  He's coming towards you.

  ¿Irás a la fiesta conmigo?

  Will you come to the party with me?

• “venir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025