Venire Conjugation in Italian
venire means “to come” in English, and it is one of the first verbs Italian learners meet — it sits at number 6 in VerbFlow’s frequency list for Italian verbs. It is the verb of coming and arriving from somewhere else, and it also appears in expressions for where someone comes from. It takes essere in the passato prossimo, and its present has a stem change in the singular and third-person plural. This page gives you the complete conjugation of venire — every tense, every person, the gerund and the past participle — with notes, examples, common mistakes and a quiz. Here is the verb in a natural sentence: “Io vengo a casa ogni giorno.” — “I come home.”
Quick facts
- Infinitive: venire
- English: to come
- Verb type: Irregular -ire verb
- Irregular in: present, passato-remoto, future, conditional, future-perfect, conditional-perfect, present-subjunctive, imperative-affirmative, imperative-negative, past-participle, present-perfect, pluperfect
- Gerund: venendo
- Present participle: venente
- Past participle: venuto
- Auxiliary: essere (all perfect tenses are formed with essere + the past participle)
- Ending: -ire verbs; pattern ire in the verified tables
Pronunciation
Pronunciation is not listed on this page: the verified tables do not include IPA for venire, so no pronunciation is given rather than an invented one. Learn the spelling of the forms first, and listen to a native speaker for the sounds rather than trusting an invented transcription. The forms below are the ones that matter: once you can read venire in every tense, you can recognise it in speech even before you can pronounce every form perfectly.
Three things to remember about venire
- It is irregular in 12 tense(s): present, passato-remoto, future, conditional, future-perfect, conditional-perfect, present-subjunctive, imperative-affirmative, imperative-negative, past-participle, present-perfect, pluperfect. Learn those forms as a set instead of guessing them from the infinitive, because the stem changes in ways no rule predicts.
- The perfect tenses use essere: the passato prossimo is formed with essere in the present plus the past participle venuto. The tables on this page give the participle in the masculine singular form, exactly as it appears in the verified dump; agreement with the subject is a separate step that depends on the sentence, not on the verb table.
- The participles are venente and venuto: keep both in mind as you read the tables, because the present participle appears as an adjective and the past participle appears in every perfect tense. If you know those two forms and the present tense, you already know the skeleton of the whole conjugation.
Full conjugation tables
Every form below comes from VerbFlow’s verified conjugation tables for venire. Learn the present tense first, then the passato prossimo and the imperfect, and add the remaining tenses one at a time.
Present indicative (presente)
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| io | vengo |
| tu | vieni |
| lui/lei | viene |
| noi | veniamo |
| voi | venite |
| loro | vengono |
The present indicative is used for habits, facts and things happening now. For example: “Io vengo a casa ogni giorno.” — “I come home”
Passato remoto
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| io | venni |
| tu | venisti |
| lui/lei | venne |
| noi | venimmo |
| voi | veniste |
| loro | vennero |
The passato remoto is used for completed actions in the distant past, mostly in written and literary Italian and in the south of Italy. For example: “Io venni a casa ieri.” — “I came home”
Imperfect (imperfetto)
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| io | venivo |
| tu | venivi |
| lui/lei | veniva |
| noi | venivamo |
| voi | venivate |
| loro | venivano |
The imperfect is used for ongoing or habitual actions in the past, and for background description. For example: “Io venivo a casa una volta.” — “I used to come home”
Future (futuro semplice)
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| io | verrò |
| tu | verrai |
| lui/lei | verrà |
| noi | verremo |
| voi | verrete |
| loro | verranno |
The future is used for what will happen, for predictions and for probability. For example: “Io verrò a casa domani.” — “I will come home”
Conditional (condizionale)
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| io | verrei |
| tu | verresti |
| lui/lei | verrebbe |
| noi | verremmo |
| voi | verreste |
| loro | verrebbero |
The conditional is used for what would happen, for polite requests and for hypothetical situations. For example: “Io verrei a casa un giorno.” — “I would come home”
Present perfect (passato prossimo)
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| io | sono venuto |
| tu | sei venuto |
| lui/lei | è venuto |
| noi | siamo venuto |
| voi | siete venuto |
| loro | sono venuto |
The passato prossimo is used for completed actions in the past, especially in spoken Italian. For example: “Lui è venuto a casa questa settimana.” — “He has come home”
Pluperfect (trapassato prossimo)
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| io | ero venuto |
| tu | eri venuto |
| lui/lei | era venuto |
| noi | eravamo venuto |
| voi | eravate venuto |
| loro | erano venuto |
The pluperfect is used for an action completed before another past action. For example: “Io ero venuto a casa prima della festa.” — “I had come home”
Future perfect (futuro anteriore)
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| io | sarò venuto |
| tu | sarai venuto |
| lui/lei | sarà venuto |
| noi | saremo venuto |
| voi | sarete venuto |
| loro | saranno venuto |
The future perfect is used for what will have happened by a point in the future. For example: “Io sarò venuto a casa per domani.” — “I will have come home”
Conditional perfect (condizionale passato)
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| io | sarei venuto |
| tu | saresti venuto |
| lui/lei | sarebbe venuto |
| noi | saremmo venuto |
| voi | sareste venuto |
| loro | sarebbero venuto |
The conditional perfect is used for what would have happened in a different past. For example: “Io sarei venuto a casa ieri.” — “I would have come home”
Present subjunctive (congiuntivo presente)
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| io | venga |
| tu | venga |
| lui/lei | venga |
| noi | veniamo |
| voi | veniate |
| loro | vengano |
The present subjunctive is used for wishes, doubts, emotions and opinions after che. For example: “È importante che io venga a casa.” — “It is important that I come home”
Imperfect subjunctive (congiuntivo imperfetto)
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| io | venissi |
| tu | venissi |
| lui/lei | venisse |
| noi | venissimo |
| voi | veniste |
| loro | venissero |
The imperfect subjunctive is used in the past for wishes and hypotheticals after che, and in if-clauses. For example: “Era importante che io venissi a casa.” — “It was important that I come home”
Imperative (affirmative)
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| tu | vieni |
| lui/lei | venga |
| noi | veniamo |
| voi | venite |
| loro | vengano |
The affirmative imperative is used for direct commands and instructions. For example: “Vieni a casa!” — “Come home!”
Imperative (negative)
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| tu | venire |
| lui/lei | venga |
| noi | veniamo |
| voi | veniate |
| loro | vengano |
The negative imperative is used for prohibitions and negative commands. For example: “Non venire a casa.” — “Do not come home.”
Gerund
| Form | Italian |
|---|---|
| Gerund | venendo |
The gerund is used for an action happening at the same time as another action, often with stare for the progressive. For example: “Venendo a casa, imparo molto.” — “While coming home, I learn a lot.”
Present participle
| Form | Italian |
|---|---|
| Present participle | venente |
The present participle is used as an adjective, describing an ongoing action. For example, the participle venente is used to describe something that is happening at the same time as the main action, much like an English -ing adjective.
Past participle
| Form | Italian |
|---|---|
| Past participle | venuto |
The past participle is used with an auxiliary to form the perfect tenses, and as an adjective. For example: “Io sono venuto a casa questa settimana.” — “I have come home.”
Example sentences
Ten natural sentences with venire, covering different tenses and persons. Say each one aloud, then cover the Italian and try to produce it from the English.
- “Io vengo a casa ogni giorno.” — “I come home”
- “Tu venisti a casa ieri.” — “You came home”
- “Lui veniva a casa una volta.” — “He used to come home”
- “Io verrò a casa domani.” — “I will come home”
- “Tu verresti a casa un giorno.” — “You would come home”
- “Lui è venuto a casa questa settimana.” — “He has come home”
- “Io ero venuto a casa prima della festa.” — “I had come home”
- “Tu sarai venuto a casa per domani.” — “You will have come home”
- “È importante che io venga a casa.” — “It is important that I come home”
- “Vieni a casa!” — “Come home!”
Common mistakes
1. Using the infinitive instead of a conjugated form
✗ Wrong: “Io venire a casa.”
✓ Right: “Io vengo a casa ogni giorno.”
The infinitive venire never takes a subject. After io you need the conjugated present form vengo.
2. Using the wrong person’s form
✗ Wrong: “Io vieni a casa.”
✓ Right: “Io vengo a casa ogni giorno.”
vieni is the tu form, not the io form. Match the verb to the subject every time: io goes with vengo.
3. Using the present for a finished past action
✗ Wrong: “Io vengo a casa ieri.”
✓ Right: “Io sono venuto a casa questa settimana.”
Yesterday points to the past, so the present is wrong here. Use the passato prossimo sono venuto for a finished action yesterday.
4. Using the wrong auxiliary in the passato prossimo
✗ Wrong: “Io ho venuto a casa.”
✓ Right: “Io sono venuto a casa questa settimana.”
The passato prossimo of venire is formed with essere plus the past participle venuto: the io form is sono venuto. Check the auxiliary in the table above before you build a perfect tense.
5. Using the indicative after a subjunctive trigger
✗ Wrong: “È importante che io vengo a casa.”
✓ Right: “È importante che io venga a casa.”
After è importante che Italian needs the subjunctive, so use venga here, not the indicative vengo.
6. Using the gerund instead of the past participle in a perfect tense
✗ Wrong: “Io sono venendo a casa.”
✓ Right: “Io sono venuto a casa questa settimana.”
The perfect tenses need the past participle venuto, not the gerund venendo. The gerund belongs in progressive constructions, never after an auxiliary in a perfect tense.
Quiz: test yourself
Ten questions on venire. Choose the right form, then check the answer key below.
What is the io form of venire in the Present indicative?
- A) vieni
- B) vengo
- C) viene
- D) veniamo
What is the lui/lei form of venire in the Passato remoto?
- A) venni
- B) venisti
- C) venne
- D) venimmo
What is the noi form of venire in the Imperfect?
- A) venivo
- B) venivi
- C) veniva
- D) venivamo
What is the tu form of venire in the Future?
- A) verrai
- B) verrò
- C) verrà
- D) verremo
What is the io form of venire in the Conditional?
- A) verresti
- B) verrei
- C) verrebbe
- D) verremmo
What is the lui/lei form of venire in the Present perfect (passato prossimo)?
- A) sono venuto
- B) sei venuto
- C) è venuto
- D) siamo venuto
What is the lui/lei form of venire in the Present subjunctive?
- A) veniamo
- B) veniate
- C) vengano
- D) venga
What is the io form of venire in the Imperfect subjunctive?
- A) venissi
- B) venisse
- C) venissimo
- D) veniste
What is the gerund of venire?
- A) venuto
- B) venendo
- C) venire
- D) vengo
What does venire mean in English?
- A) to be
- B) to have
- C) to come
- D) to do, to make
Answer key
- B) vengo — the correct form is vengo. The other options are other forms of the same verb.
- C) venne — the correct form is venne. The other options are other forms of the same verb.
- D) venivamo — the correct form is venivamo. The other options are other forms of the same verb.
- A) verrai — the correct form is verrai. The other options are other forms of the same verb.
- B) verrei — the correct form is verrei. The other options are other forms of the same verb.
- C) è venuto — the correct form is è venuto. The other options are other forms of the same verb.
- D) venga — the correct form is venga. The other options are other forms of the same verb.
- A) venissi — the correct form is venissi. The other options are other forms of the same verb.
- B) venendo — the correct form is venendo. The other options are other forms of the same verb.
- C) to come — the correct form is to come. The other options are other forms of the same verb.
Frequently asked questions
What does venire mean in English?
venire means “to come”. It is a core everyday verb, so its present-tense forms are worth learning first.
Is venire regular or irregular?
venire is irregular: it is irregular in present, passato-remoto, future, conditional, future-perfect, conditional-perfect, present-subjunctive, imperative-affirmative, imperative-negative, past-participle, present-perfect, pluperfect. The gerund is venendo and the past participle is venuto.
What are the gerund and past participle of venire?
The gerund is venendo — use it with stare for the progressive. The past participle is venuto — use it with essere for the perfect tenses, as in sono venuto.
Which auxiliary does venire take in the passato prossimo?
venire takes essere in the passato prossimo: the io form is sono venuto. All four perfect tenses on this page are built with essere plus the past participle venuto.
How do I say “I come” in Italian?
Say “Io vengo a casa ogni giorno.” — “I come home” The io form of the present is vengo, and it is the form you will use most often.
Related pages
- Full conjugation of venire — every tense of venire in one place.
- Venire in the passato prossimo tense — the full table and usage rules for one tense.
- Venire examples and quiz — more example sentences and practice questions for this verb.
- Italian passato prossimo tense guide — the full guide to the passato prossimo tense in Italian.
- Italian irregular verbs — every common irregular Italian verb, grouped by pattern.
- Dire conjugation — another everyday Italian verb.
- Sentire conjugation — another everyday Italian verb.
- Italian verbs — the full hub of Italian conjugation pages.
- VerbFlow home — all languages, tools and verb lists.
- Verb Conjugator — practise venire with the interactive tool.
- Conjugation Chart Printer — practise venire with the interactive tool.
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