Montana

[timid oak]

Please be patient

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[serene sparrow]

'He has just arrived' as in it's describing a past event but with an emphasis of it being happened really recently relative to the present

[patent trail]

Is it cause of the conjugation d?

[serene sparrow]

This is just the structure of the recent past (passé récent)

venir de faire quelque chose = to have just done something

[patent trail]

So “de”kind of means just?

[serene sparrow]

No, it doesn't work word for word

This is just the equivalent construction

[patent trail]

Ok will “il vient l’arriver have the same meaning”?

[serene sparrow]

Another clue that it's not word for word: Notice how the English construction has it in the present perfect tense (He has just arrived) but the French construction has it in the present tense (Il vient d'arriver)

[serene sparrow]

Means nothing

[grim shell]

swapping words out doesn't always end with meaningful sentences
[venir + de + infinitive verb] is just its own construction

[patent trail]

Merci!

Ok so “Je viens de partir”= I have just left