Irregular Spanish verbs are commonplace in Spanish, and the Spanish past tenses have their fair share of them. To cover all of these irregular verbs is too big a job to cover here, so we will feature just the one, the Spanish verb Venir, that means, ‘to come’
Spanish verb conjugation can be hard to master at the best of times, but when encountering a highly irregular verb it is even more so. Venir, is highly irregular, and nowhere is this more noticeable than when it is conjugated in the preterite tense, which is 1 of the 2 past tenses used most frequently in Spanish, the imperfect tense being the other.
Venir follows the normal conjugation of an -ir verb when used in the imperfect past tense as the shown, regular endings are in bold;
- yo venía – I was coming
- tú venías – you were coming
- él, ella venía – he, she or it was coming
- usted venía – you were coming (polite singular)
- nosotros veníamos – we were coming
- vosotros veníais – you were (all) coming
- ellos, ellas venían – they were coming
- ustedes venían – you were (all) coming (polite plural)
However, the formation of the preterito, or preterit, is very irregular and, will require more more time to completely master:
- yo vine – I came
- tú viniste – you came
- él, ella vino – he, she or it came
- usted vino – you came (polite singular)
- nosotros vinimos – we came
- vosotros vinisteis – you (all) came
- ellos, ellas vinieron – they came
- ustedes vinieron – you (all) came (polite plural)
Venir, as previously mentioned, is a highly irregular verb in all but one of the simple tenses (that would be the imperfect tense as shown above) and as such, it would be a excellent idea to utilize a software program that will help train you to learn Spanish verb conjugation.
Verb conjugation training software programs are highly beneficial when studying verbs such as venir, and other similarly difficult verbs, by providing targeted exercises on user designated problem areas and, by doing so, it will guarantee you learn the conjugations of irregular Spanish verbs like venir in the shortest time feasible.
For your information, there are also a number of verbs that use the same pattern of conjugation as Venir and these are known as verbs that belong to the Venir family of verbs. These related verbs are listed below:
- Intervenir – to intervene or, to take part
- Prevenir – to prevent or, to warn
- Sobrevenir – to happen suddenly or, to follow
- Avenir – to reconcile or, to come to an agreement
- Contravenir – to violate, to contravene or, to infringe
- Devenir – to become, to happen
- Convenir – to agree on or, to be suitable
- Provenir – to come from
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