obvenir

Catalan

Alternative forms

• obvindre

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin obvenīre.

Verb

obvenir (first-person singular present obvinc, first-person singular preterite obvinguí, past participle obvingut); root stress: (Central, Valencian, Balearic) /e/

1. (intransitive) to fall to

   Synonym: recaure

Conjugation

    Conjugation of obvenir (third conjugation, without -eix-, irregular, with velar infix)

infinitive			obvenir
gerund			obvenint
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		obvingut		obvinguda
		plural		obvinguts		obvingudes
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		jo	tu	ell/ella vostè	nosaltres nós	vosaltres vós	ells/elles vostès
	present	obvinc	obvens	obvé	obvenim	obveniu	obvenen
	imperfect	obvenia	obvenies	obvenia	obveníem	obveníeu	obvenien
	future	obvindré	obvindràs	obvindrà	obvindrem	obvindreu	obvindran
	preterite	obvinguí	obvingueres	obvingué	obvinguérem	obvinguéreu	obvingueren
	conditional	obvindria	obvindries	obvindria	obvindríem	obvindríeu	obvindrien
subjunctive		jo	tu	ell/ella vostè	nosaltres nós	vosaltres vós	ells/elles vostès
	present	obvingui	obvinguis	obvingui	obvinguem	obvingueu	obvinguin
	imperfect	obvingués	obvinguessis	obvingués	obvinguéssim	obvinguéssiu	obvinguessin
imperative		—	tu	vostè	nosaltres	vosaltres vós	vostès
	affirmative	—	obvén	obvingui	obvinguem	obveniu	obvinguin
	negative (no)	—	no obvinguis	no obvingui	no obvinguem	no obvingueu	no obvinguin

Further reading

• “obvenir” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “obvenir”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “obvenir” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “obvenir” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

From Latin obvenīre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔb.və.niʁ/

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Verb

obvenir

1. (rare, law, defective) to happen, to occur

   Synonym: échoir

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 conjugated only in the third person.

Conjugation of obvenir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	obvenir
	compound	être + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	obvenant /ɔb.və.nɑ̃/
	compound	étant + past participle
past participle		obvenu /ɔb.və.ny/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	—	—	obvient /ɔb.vjɛ̃/	—	—	obviennent /ɔb.vjɛn/
	imperfect	—	—	obvenait /ɔb.və.nɛ/	—	—	obvenaient /ɔb.və.nɛ/
	past historic2	—	—	obvint /ɔb.vɛ̃/	—	—	obvinrent /ɔb.vɛ̃ʁ/
	future	—	—	obviendra /ɔb.vjɛ̃.dʁa/	—	—	obviendront /ɔb.vjɛ̃.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	—	—	obviendrait /ɔb.vjɛ̃.dʁɛ/	—	—	obviendraient /ɔb.vjɛ̃.dʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of être + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of être + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of être + past participle
	future perfect	future of être + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of être + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	—	—	obvienne /ɔb.vjɛn/	—	—	obviennent /ɔb.vjɛn/
	imperfect2	—	—	obvînt /ɔb.vɛ̃/	—	—	obvinssent /ɔb.vɛ̃s/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of être + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of être + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	—	—	—	—	—
compound		—	simple imperative of être + past participle	—	simple imperative of être + past participle	simple imperative of être + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• venir

Further reading

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