venir
French, verb/və.niʁ/
venir is spelled V-E-N-I-R (5 letters) and appears 151 times per million words in written French, the 542nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Venir is a French verb meaning “to come (to move from one place to another that is nearer the speaker)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Se rendre sur le lieu où se trouve celui qui parle ou dont on parle”.
What does venir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to come (to move from one place to another that is nearer the speaker)
Viens vivre avec moi en France.
- 2
used in venir de with the meaning of "originate from" or "have just done"
- 3
vulgarto cum, to come, to orgasm
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Se rendre sur le lieu où se trouve celui qui parle ou dont on parle. 2. S’étendre jusqu’à un point précis, atteindre une limite. 3. Survenir, arriver, se produire inopinément ou fortuitement. 4. Se déplacer en sens inverse, quand celui qui parle invite un autre à l’accompagner.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of venir
- être + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- venant gerund participle present
- étant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- venu participle past
- viens first-person indicative present
- vient indicative present singular
- venons first-person indicative plural
- venez indicative plural present
- viennent indicative plural present
- venais first-person imperfect indicative
- venait imperfect indicative singular
- venions first-person imperfect indicative
- veniez imperfect indicative plural
- venaient imperfect indicative plural
- vins first-person historic indicative
- vint historic indicative past
- vînmes first-person historic indicative
- vîntes historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce venir?
- /və.niʁ/
- /vniʁ/
- \və.niʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to venir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is venir in French?
venir appears 151 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).