French 2 Honours - the verb venir, the passé récent and time expressions

tenir conjugated

je tiens tu tiens il/elle/on tient nous tenons vous tenez ils/elles tiennent

venir conjugated

je viens tu viens il/elle/on vient nous venons vous venez ils/elles viennent

venir + auxiliary être

passé composé with venir

venir in present + de + infinitive

passé récent

venir in present or past + infinitive to say...

someone is coming or has come to do something

how to conjugate verbs like maintenir and retenir (tenir root)

they take avoir in the passé composé too and just had the prefix to tenir

how to conjugate verbs like devenir and revenir (venir root)

they take être in the passé composé too and just had the prefix to venir

devenir

to become

venir

to come

revenir

to come back

tenir

to hold

retenir

to keep, to retain, to remember

maintenir

to maintain

il y a + (time ago)

to say something has happened at a certain time ago in the past

pendent + (time period)--verb is often in the passé composé

to say that something happened happened for a particular period of time that has ended

depuis + (time period, date, or starting point)--verb is often in the present tense

to say that something has been going on since a particular time and continues into the present

past participle of venir

venu

a command for of tenir is used...

when handing something to someone