# advenir
## Catalan
### Alternative forms

* advindre

### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin advenīre. Doublet of avenir.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [əd.bəˈni]
* IPA: (Balearic) [əd.vəˈni]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ad.veˈniɾ]

### Verb

advenir (first-person singular present advinc, first-person singular preterite advinguí, past participle advingut); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/
* (intransitive) to happen, to occur

#### Related terms

* avenir

### Further reading

* “advenir” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “advenir”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “advenir” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “advenir” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle French advenir, from Latin advenīre (or re-Latinized further from an Old French form avenir). Cf. also the archaic inherited doublet aveindre (“pull or take something from its resting place; reach or attain something through effort”), coming through a Vulgar Latin form *advenǐre or influenced by atteindre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ad.və.niʁ/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

advenir (defective)
* (impersonal, defective, literary or poetic) to happen, to occur

#### Conjugation

This is a verb in a group of -ir verbs. All verbs ending in -venir, such as convenir and devenir, are conjugated this way. Such verbs are the only verbs whose the past historic and subjunctive imperfect endings do not start in one of these thematic vowels (-a-, -i-, -u-). This verb is impersonal and is conjugated only in the third-person singular.

#### Derived terms

* advienne que pourra

### See also

* avenir

### Further reading

* “advenir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* vendrai, viendra

## Middle French
### Etymology

From Latin advenīre. Cf. also Old French avenir.

### Verb

advenir
* To happen, to occur.
** 1488, Jean Dupré, Lancelot du Lac, page 67:Lors commença Lancelot a compter toutes les adventures qui lui estoient advenuesThen Lancelot started to recount all the adventures that had happened to him
** 1595, Michel de Montaigne, Essais, book II, chapter 37:là où, quand ils sont beaucoup, ils descrient tous les coups le mestier, d’autant qu’il leur advient de faire plus souvent mal que bien.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin advenīre. Doublet of avenir.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /adbeˈniɾ/ [að̞.β̞eˈniɾ]
* Rhymes: -iɾ
* Syllabification: ad‧ve‧nir

### Verb

advenir (first-person singular present advengo, first-person singular preterite advine, past participle advenido)
* (intransitive) to arrive
    Synonym: llegar
* (intransitive) to happen
    Synonyms: ocurrir, pasar, acontecer, suceder

#### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

#### Derived terms

* advenedizo
* advenimiento

#### Related terms

* avenir

### Further reading

* “advenir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10