Breakdown of Elle vit loin, mais elle vient pour la cérémonie.
elle
she
mais
but
pour
for
loin
far
venir
to come
vivre
to live, to experience
la cérémonie
the ceremony
Questions & Answers about Elle vit loin, mais elle vient pour la cérémonie.
Wait, is vit a regular -ir verb?
No, vit is the il/elle/on form of the highly irregular verb vivre (to live). To form it, you drop the -vre from the infinitive and add a -t. It is easily confused with regular -ir verbs because of how it looks!
vit and vient look really similar. Are they from the same verb?
They are completely different irregular verbs! vit means 'lives' and comes from vivre. vient means 'comes' and comes from venir. Because they look and sound a bit alike in the present tense, it is very common for learners to mix them up.
Doesn't 'far away' usually need 'de' after it, like loin de?
Why does the translation say 'she is coming' instead of 'she comes'?
French does not have a direct equivalent to the English '-ing' continuous tense. The standard French present tense covers both meanings. So, elle vient translates to either 'she comes' or 'she is coming' depending on what makes the most sense in English.
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