Je viens de + [city] = I'm from + [city]

Hi Georgia,

here is the conjugation of "Je viens de Vienne."

I hope that's helpful to you.  -- Chris (not a native speaker).

Bonjour Georgia !

Here is the link to our lesson on the full conjugation of venir in Le Présent:

https://french.kwiziq.com/revision/grammar/conjugate-venir-tenir-and-derivatives-in-le-present-present-tense

Bonne journée !

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What's your question?

-- Chris.

Bonjour Randolf !

Good sentence, just one thing :

Bonne journée !

je viens d'aux États-Unis

Hi Vernon,

Although you don't need to worry about the gender of most towns or cities in the expression , 'Venir de', as in the case of single word places it will always be

Je viens de Paris, je viens de Londres, je viens d'Amsterdam, je viens de Nice ...

In the case of towns which use an article in their name it will be,

je viens du Havre (because the town is Le Havre )

Je viens de La Rochelle ( because the town is La Rochelle)  

je viens des Sables d'Olonne ( the town is Les Sables d'Olonne) etc...

When you start talking about towns and cities or describing them you will need to use a gender and some will be feminine or masculine. Some will have an article in front of them like, La Havane , La Rochelle, Le Creusot which will determine whether they are feminine or masculine. Some will have an adjective in their name like, Mantes-la-Jolie which will indicate their gender. But in the majority of single word cases, there are no rules to indicate whether a city or town is masculine or feminine except when you use the adjectives 'vieux', 'grand', 'nouveau' or 'tout' in front of  them which  will always be masculine in this case, e.g. Le Vieux Nice, le grand Bruxelles, le nouveau Belleville, Le tout-Paris...

Hope this helps!

 

Bonsoir Vernon,
Yes, city names have a gender. which is covered in a different lesson at the A1 level; here is that lesson link:
https://french.kwiziq.com/my-languages/french/view/3119

J'espère que ma réponse vous aiderait.
Bonne chance et bonne continuation dans vos études en français, la langue de Molière et qui a été utilisée par le monde français depuis l’époque d’Hugues Capet

Ron (un locuteur non natif )

Bonjour Djordje,
Very good practice phrase with one small correction: Je viens de Serbie. In French Serbia becomes Serbie.
I hope you find this helpful,
bonne chance

Bonjour,
Merci for your corection.

Bonjour Jimmy,
Assuming that you are a native English speaker, we often forget in learning a second or even third language how we learned English. It was not that we picked it up in a year or two, it was by rote, that is that, for most of us in the US who had a minimum of 12 years in school, we were immersed in English daily and we went over the same things for the most part repetitively. And after those 12 years, we came out of school with varying levels in vocabulary:
"Nagy and Anderson (1984) estimated that an average high school senior knows 45,000 words, but other researchers have estimated that the number is much closer to 17,000 words (D'Anna, Zechmeister, & Hall, 1991) or 5,000 words (Hirsh & Nation, 1992)."
As you can see, the studies vary from 5000 words to 45,000 words. The point being, that no matter the size of our vocabulary upon graduation, it was learned by repetition and usage.
The same holds for learning French, it is by repetition and usage that we will become proficient. The largest problem that we have living in the US, is we are not exposed on a day over day basis to the language and culture of French, i.e. we are not immersed in it, like we would be having grown up in France or another French speaking country nor by being in that milieu daily.
Bonne chance et bonne continuation dans vos études en français.

Bonjour Arpan,
Votre français, c'est exact.
Alors, voici une autre façon syntaxique de dire la même phrase.
Je suis originaire de Mumbai en Inde
J'espère que c'est utile pour vous.
Bonne chance et bonne continuation en vos études de français.

Je m'excuse. Il y a une petite faute d’orthographe.
«veins» , cela aurait dû être «viens».

Merci Beaucoup !!

can anybody help me with this question

Bonjour Anagha!
I believe "I come from India" would be "Je viens d'Inde"
Since Inde begins with a vowel de contracts to d'.
Hope it's helpful. :)

Bonjour Anagha !

Heera is right !
Here is a link to our lesson on how to express "in/to" + countries in French, which varies from the city case :)
https://french.kwiziq.com/revision/grammar/use-en-with-feminine-countries-and-aux-with-masculine-countries-to-say-in-or-to-prepositions

À bientôt !

It's suppose to be "Tu vien d'ou?" Right?

Yes It is .. where do you come from?

Bonjour Carrie et Ron !
Depending on these two cases, you'll either say:
1) Je viens de la Côte de l'Or, en Afrique.
or
2) Je viens de Gold Coast, en Australie. (city)Je viens de la Côte d'Or, en Australie. (region including the city of Gold Coast)

I hope that's helpful!
Bonne journée !

Bonjour Carrie !

The issue here is whether the Gold Coast is a city or a region, as in French it makes a difference.
Can you give me more details as to what is the Gold Coast exactly?

Merci !

Bonjour Aurélie,
Il y a deux «Gold Coast»:
1) The Gold Coast was a British colony on the Gulf of Guinea in west Africa from 1867 to its independence as the nation of Ghana in 1957.
2) The Gold Coast is a city in the Australian state of Queensland, approximately 66 kilometres (41 mi) south-southeast of the state capital Brisbane.
Alors,bonne journée.