Je viens de mettre mes filles au lit. I have just put my girls in bed.
Venir de conjugated in the present tense and followed by the infinitive is the equivalent of to have just + past participle.
Elle vient d’arriver. (She has just arrived.)
Ils viennent de faire leurs devoirs. (They have just done their homework.)
It is an irregular -ir verb and is conjugated in the present tense like this:
je viens
tu viens
il/elle/on vient
nous venons
vous venez
ils/elles viennent
There are other verbs that are conjugated in the present tense in the same way; in other words, with the same suffixes, and they are: devenir (to become), revenir (to come back), se souvenir de (to remember), tenir (to hold) and obtenir (to obtain).
Why don’t you give us an example sentence using one of these verbs in a comment!
