No. 630 in French
viennent
"Viennent" means "come" (third person plural of "venir").
In a sentence
Ils viennent de partir à l'école.
They just left for school.
In this sentence, 'viennent' is used in the phrase 'viennent de' which represents the recent past tense, indicating something that just happened.
Les idées nouvelles viennent rarement facilement.
New ideas rarely come easily.
Here, 'viennent' is used as the present tense of the verb 'venir' to indicate the origin or emergence of something.
D'où viennent ces fleurs magnifiques?
Where do these beautiful flowers come from?
In this example, 'viennent' is used to express the point of origin of something in the present tense.
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