Breakdown of Le saignement vient de la plaie.
de
from
venir
to come
le saignement
the bleeding
la plaie
the wound
Questions & Answers about Le saignement vient de la plaie.
Why is it le saignement but la plaie?
Because French nouns have grammatical gender.
- saignement is masculine, so it takes le
- plaie is feminine, so it takes la
This gender is grammatical, not based on biological sex. You usually just have to learn each noun with its article:
- le saignement = bleeding
- la plaie = wound
That is why the sentence begins with Le saignement and ends with de la plaie.
What does vient de mean here?
Here, vient de means comes from or is coming from.
So:
A very important point: venir de can also mean to have just done something when it is followed by an infinitive:
- Je viens de manger = I just ate
But that is not what is happening here. In your sentence, de is introducing the source:
- vient de la plaie = comes from the wound
Why is it de la plaie and not du plaie or just de plaie?