convenir

• convindre

Inherited from Latin convenīre.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kum.bəˈni]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [koɱ.vəˈni]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [koɱ.veˈniɾ]
• Rhymes: -i(ɾ)

convenir (first-person singular present convinc, first-person singular preterite convinguí, past participle convingut); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/

1. (intransitive) to be apt or suitable
2. (intransitive) to agree (to harmonize in opinion or action)

   Synonym: estar d'acord

• desconvenir

• “convenir” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Inherited from Latin convenire. Spelt covenir in Old French, etymologically reconstructed in Middle French to closer match the original Latin spelling.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃v.niʁ/

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convenir

1. to admit; to agree [with de ‘to/upon’]

   convenir du prix de quelque chose ― to agree on the price of something

   Je conviens que c’est un problème. ― I agree that it's a problem.

2. to suit; to be convenient for [with à ‘someone’]

   On se voit mardi, si cela convient aux autres. ― We’ll meet up on Tuesday, if this suits the others.

   • 1933, Henri Gaussen, Géographie des Plantes, Armand Colin, page 67:

     Il est bien évident que les plantes vivent uniquement dans les milieux qui leur conviennent […]

     It is obvious that plants live solely in the environments which suit them […]

3. (impersonal) to be appropriate or admissible (to be agreed upon according to convention) [with de]

   Il ne me convient pas d’agir ainsi. ― It would not suit me to act in that way.

   • 1963, Simone De Beauvoir, La Force des choses, Éditions Gallimard:

     Les jeunes femmes ont un sens aigu de ce qu’il convient de faire et de ne pas faire quand on a cessé d’être jeune. « Je ne comprends pas, disent-elles, que passé quarante ans on se teigne en blond ; qu’on s’exhibe en bikini ; qu’on coquette avec les hommes. Moi, quand j’aurai cet âge-là... »

     Young women have a sharp sense of what they should and should not do when they are no longer young. They say, "I don't understand women over forty who dye their hair blonde, who show themselves off in bikinis and flirt with men. When I am that age..."

• When conjugating convenir, compound tenses cannot be formed using être as the auxiliary verb in the sense of “to suit”. It must take avoir. This is even though it derives from venir, which takes être.

This is a verb in a group of -ir verbs. All verbs ending in -venir, such as revenir 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-).

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

Inherited from Latin convenīre.

• IPA^(key): /kombeˈniɾ/ [kõm.beˈniɾ]
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: con‧ve‧nir

convenir (first-person singular present convengo, first-person singular preterite convine, past participle convenido)

1. (transitive) to agree, agree on, agree upon

   Synonyms: acordar, concordar

2. (transitive, intransitive) to be convenient, suit
3. to admit

   Synonym: admitir

4. to arrange (bring together various parts to build or form something)
5. (transitive) to convene

• “convenir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28