pervenir

Catalan

Alternative forms

• pervindre

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pervenīre.

Verb

pervenir (first-person singular present pervinc, first-person singular preterite pervinguí, past participle pervingut); root stress: (Northern) /e̞/; (Balearic, Central, Northwestern, Valencia) /e/

1. (intransitive) to arrive at with difficulty (to reach a destination)
2. (intransitive) to arrive at (to reach a conclusion)

Conjugation

    Central Catalan conjugation of pervenir (third conjugation, without -eix-, irregular, with velar infix)

infinitive			pervenir
gerund			pervenint
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		pervingut		pervinguda
		plural		pervinguts		pervingudes
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		jo	tu	ell/ella vostè	nosaltres nós	vosaltres vós	ells/elles vostès
	present	pervinc	pervens	pervé	pervenim	perveniu	pervenen
	imperfect	pervenia	pervenies	pervenia	perveníem	perveníeu	pervenien
	future	pervindré	pervindràs	pervindrà	pervindrem	pervindreu	pervindran
	preterite	pervinguí	pervingueres	pervingué	pervinguérem	pervinguéreu	pervingueren
	conditional	pervindria	pervindries	pervindria	pervindríem	pervindríeu	pervindrien
subjunctive		jo	tu	ell/ella vostè	nosaltres nós	vosaltres vós	ells/elles vostès
	present	pervingui	pervinguis	pervingui	pervinguem	pervingueu	pervinguin
	imperfect	pervingués	pervinguessis	pervingués	pervinguéssim	pervinguéssiu	pervinguessin
imperative		—	tu	vostè	nosaltres	vosaltres vós	vostès
	affirmative	—	pervén	pervingui	pervinguem	perveniu	pervinguin
	negative (no)	—	no pervinguis	no pervingui	no pervinguem	no pervingueu	no pervinguin

Further reading

• “pervenir”, 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
• “pervenir”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “pervenir” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “pervenir”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)