veni

See also: vení and venì

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin, Italian venire and French venir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈveni/

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• Rhymes: -eni
• Syllabification: ve‧ni

Verb

veni (present venas, past venis, future venos, conditional venus, volitive venu)

1. (intransitive) to come
   • 2012, Plato, translated by Donald Broadribb, La Respubliko (Traduko al Esperanto) [The Republic (Translation into Esperanto)], 2nd corrected edition (paperback), New York: Mondial, →ISBN, page 18:

     "Se mi ankoraŭ povus facile veturi al la urbo, vi ne bezonus veni ĉi tien ĉar ni venus al vi."

     "If I could still easily travel to the city, you wouldn't need to come here, because we would come to you."

Conjugation

Conjugation of veni

		present		past		future
		singular	plural	singular	plural	singular	plural
tense		venas		venis		venos
active participle		venanta	venantaj	veninta	venintaj	venonta	venontaj
	acc.	venantan	venantajn	venintan	venintajn	venontan	venontajn
nominal active participle		venanto	venantoj	veninto	venintoj	venonto	venontoj
	acc.	venanton	venantojn	veninton	venintojn	venonton	venontojn
adverbial active participle		venante		veninte		venonte
		infinitive	veni	imperative	venu	conditional	venus

Derived terms

• alveni (“to arrive”)
• antaŭveni (“to precede, to come before”)
• deveni (“to originate, to come from”)
• elveni (“to come out, to exit”)
• enveni (“to come into, to enter”)
• kunveni (“to gather, to congregate”)
• reveni (“to return; to come back”)

Interlingua

Verb

veni

1. present of venir
2. imperative of venir

Latin

Verb

vēnī

1. first-person singular perfect active indicative of veniō

Verb

venī

1. second-person singular present active imperative of veniō

See also

• veni vidi vici

Romanian

Alternative forms

• вени (veni) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Etymology

Inherited from Latin venīre, from Proto-Italic *gʷenjō, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷm̥yéti, from zero-grade of *gʷem- + *-yéti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /veˈni/

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• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: ve‧ni

Verb

a veni (third-person singular present vine, past participle venit, third-person subjunctive vină) 4th conjugation

1. to come

   De unde veniți?

   Where do you come from?

Conjugation

    conjugation of veni (fourth conjugation, no infix)

infinitive			a veni
gerund			venind
past participle			venit
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	vin	vii	vine	venim	veniți	vin
	imperfect	veneam	veneai	venea	veneam	veneați	veneau
	simple perfect	venii	veniși	veni	venirăm	venirăți	veniră
	pluperfect	venisem	veniseși	venise	veniserăm	veniserăți	veniseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să vin	să vii	să vină	să venim	să veniți	să vină
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		vino			veniți
	negative		nu veni			nu veniți

Derived terms

• venire
• venit
• viitor

Related terms

• deveni
• reveni

Further reading

• “veni”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026

Slovene

Verb

veni

1. second-person singular imperative of veniti

Uneapa

Etymology

From earlier *vai-ni, from Proto-Oceanic *pai, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pai.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /βeni/

Pronoun

veni

1. where

Further reading

• Ross, Malcolm D. (2003), Andrew Pawley, editor, The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic: Volume 2, The Physical Environment, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, →OCLC; republished as Meredith Osmond, editor, (Please provide a date or year)