What does come mean? What are the past tenses of come?

Come means move or travel towards or into a place near the speaker. The past tenses of come are - came and have come. This irregular verb is one of the most used verbs in English English grammar is sometimes so simple. A friend comes to visit me every day = simple present tense. A friend came to visit me yesterday = simple past tense A friend has come to visit me six times this week = present perfect tense Read this short story to see how the irregulyr verb come is used in context. Coming back My daughter left home two years ago to go to university but she came back home after a week and my wife and I asked her why she had come so quickly. She said ''I have come back because the food is awful at university.'' So my wife taught her how to cook so that she wouldn't come back for food. However, a week later she came back again and that time she came back with three large bags full of dirty clothes. 'I have come back so that my mum can do my washing.' That time my wife taught her how to do the washing and she left again and we wondered how long it would be before she came back again and for what reason she would come back the next time - we even had a little bet on it. My wife bet that our daughter would come back to repair some clothes and I bet that she would come back to learn how to drive. Neither of us won the bet because the next time she came back was to present her future husband to us and she told us that she had also come to tell us that we were going to be grandparents - my wife and I were delighted because her future husband could cook, wash clothes, iron and drive.