#provenir

[rafaelmartinez67]

"No perdáis vuestro tiempo ni en llorar el pasado ni en llorar el porvenir. Vivid vuestras horas, vuestros minutos. Las alegrías son como flores que la lluvia mancha y el viento deshoja."

Edmond Gouncourt

[spanishboone]

What is the difference between venir and provenir? Are they synonyms? In what contexts is it appropriate to use one or the other?

Hello thanks for the question.

They are synonyms to a degree. Venir is your everyday common use of the verb to come. It means to come over, come home, or come from (person or thing) etc.

However, provenir is used for saying the origin of something, or in other words, where something comes from or where its roots are found. This word is used a lot when talking about langauges, civilizations, history, etc. This is a great word to use in a spanish essay.

No se sabe de dónde provenía la civilización Maya. - Nobody knows the origins of the Mayan civilization.

El español proviene del latín - Spanish comes from/has its origins in Latin.

Mi madre viene a mi casa para cenar - My mom comes to my place to eat dinner.

¿De dónde vino este pájaro? - Where'd this bird come from? (Where did it appear from)

Hope this helps!

[miunicoamorsonloslibros]

A lo largo de mi vida me he dado cuenta de que todos nuestros problemas provienen de nuestra incapacidad para utilizar un lenguaje claro y conciso.

Jean-Paul Sartre.

[mesillusionssousecstasy]

Comme l'existence provient de la corruption, la corruption du désir, le désir de la sensation, la sensation du contact, j'ai fui toute action, tout contact.

Gustave Flaubert (La Tentation de Saint Antoine)

[mesillusionssousecstasy]

Quoique l'élégance soit moins un art qu'un sentiment, elle provient également d'un instinct et d'une habitude.

Honoré de Balzac (Traité de la vie élégante)

[kafkasdiariies]

(gender, age, height, eye colour, hair colour, interests, ideal date, etc.) Female, 21, 1.74 m, brown eyes, light brown hair, literature, linguistics and art history, ideal date: a walk through the forest :)

Oooohhh I'm definitely interested. You sound lovely and have great taste

DESCRIBE YOURSELF ON ANON AND ILL SAY IF ID DATE YOU

[tooyoungtoreign]

11, 18, 24 for the ask :)

11. Hot Chocolate or Apple Cider?Hot Chocolate for sure 🍫

18. Coffee or Tea?Tea (unless there’s a lot of whipped cream, milk, chocolate and caramel in the coffee that mask the coffee taste) 

24. Sweaters or Boots?Both

[drunkblic]

Nuestros errores y nuestras divisiones en la moral provienen algunas veces de que consideramos a los hombres como si pudieran ser completamente viciosos o completamente buenos.

Luc de Vauvenargues / Introduction à la Connaissance de l`Esprit Humain. Pensées et Maximes ( RM, 31 )