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avenir
avenir
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Verb
avenir (first-person singular present avinc, past participle avingut)
- get on with someone, without conflict
- al final les parts en disputa s'han avingut
- accept the circumstances with resignation
- no m'en puc avenir que en Manel s'hagi mort — I can't accept that Manel is dead.
French
Etymology
From the expression temps à venir ("time (that is) to come"). Cf. also Old French avenir.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /av.niʁ/
Noun
avenir m (plural avenirs)
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Old French
Etymology
Borrowing from Latin adveniō, advenīre (“to come to, to arrive”). Cf. also the inherited doublet aveindre, avoindre, advaindre (“pull or take something from its resting place; reach or attain something through effort”), coming through a Vulgar Latin form *advenǐre or influenced by ateindre, ataindre (modern atteindre).
Verb
avenir
- to happen
Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has a stressed present stem avien distinct from the unstressed stem aven, as well as other irregularities. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | avenir | avoir avenu | |||||
| gerund | en avenant | Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| present participle | avenant | ||||||
| past participle | avenu | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
| simple tenses |
present | avieng, avien | aviens | avient | avenons | avenez | avienent |
| imperfect | avenoie, aveneie | avenoies, aveneies | avenoit, aveneit | aveniiens, aveniens | aveniiez, aveniez | avenoient, aveneient | |
| preterite | avin | avenis | avint | avenimes | avenistes | avindrent, avinrent | |
| future | avendrai | avendras | avendra | avendrons | avendroiz, avendreiz, avendrez | avendront | |
| conditional | avendroie, avendreie | avendroies, avendreies | avendroit, avendreit | avendriiens, avendriens | avendriiez, avendriez | avendroient, avendreient | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | Use the preterite tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
| simple tenses |
present | aviegne | aviegnes | aviegne | aviegniens, aviegnons | aviegniez | aviegnent |
| imperfect | avenisse | avenisses | avenist | avenissons, avenissiens | avenissoiz, avenissez, avenissiez | avenissent | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
| — | avien | — | avenons | avenez | — | ||
Descendants
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin advenīre, present active infinitive of adveniō. Doublet of advenir.
Verb
avenir (first-person singular present avengo, first-person singular preterite avine, past participle avenido)
- (transitive) to reconcile
- (reflexive) to agree, accept
- avenirse en algo - to agree on something
- avenirse a hacer algo - to agree to do something
- avenirse con alguien - to get along with someone
- avenirse a algo - to accept or resign oneself to something
- to match
- (intransitive, dated) to happen
Conjugation
| infinitive | avenir | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | aviniendo | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | avenido | avenida | |||||
| plural | avenidos | avenidas | |||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
| indicative | yo | tú vos |
él/ella usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes |
|
| present | avengo | avienestú avenísvos |
aviene | avenimos | avenís | avienen | |
| imperfect | avenía | avenías | avenía | aveníamos | aveníais | avenían | |
| preterite | avine | aviniste | avino | avinimos | avinisteis | avinieron | |
| future | avendré | avendrás | avendrá | avendremos | avendréis | avendrán | |
| conditional | avendría | avendrías | avendría | avendríamos | avendríais | avendrían | |
| subjunctive | yo | tú vos |
él/ella usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes |
|
| present | avenga | avengas | avenga | avengamos | avengáis | avengan | |
| imperfect (ra) |
aviniera | avinieras | aviniera | aviniéramos | avinierais | avinieran | |
| imperfect (se) |
aviniese | avinieses | aviniese | aviniésemos | avinieseis | aviniesen | |
| future | aviniere | avinieres | aviniere | aviniéremos | aviniereis | avinieren | |
| imperative | — | tú vos |
usted | nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ustedes | |
| affirmative | avéntú avenívos |
avenga | avengamos | avenid | avengan | ||
| negative | no avengas | no avenga | no avengamos | no avengáis | no avengan | ||
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