arriver

arrive +‎ -er

arriver (plural arrivers)

1. One who arrives; usually, one who arrives in a specified way.

   Synonyms: arrival, arrivant

   • 2007 January 7, “Gerard Beekman and Michael Kaminsky”, in New York Times‎:

     Mr. Kaminsky tells precisely the same story — except with Mr. Beekman as the late arriver.

Inherited from Middle French arriver, from Old French ariver, from Early Medieval Latin adrīpāre. Synchronically a- +‎ rive +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /a.ʁi.ve/

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arriver

1. to arrive (often followed by a location)

   On est arrivés à Paris vers 9 heures. ― We arrived in Paris around 9 o'clock.

   Ils sont arrivés avant moi. ― They got there before me.

   Je n’arriverai pas à temps pour voir le début du film. ― I won't arrive in time to see the start of the film.

2. (impersonal) to happen (unlike other translations of happen, can be used with an indirect object to specify something/somebody affected by the action; it may also be used with a relative clause in the subjunctive)

   Ça ne m’arrive jamais. ― That never happens to me.

   Il arrive souvent qu’il soit en retard. ― It often happens that he is late.

3. (informal) to cope, to manage

   J’ sais pas quoi faire... J’arrive plus. ― I don't know what to do... I can't do it anymore.

4. to be able to, to manage (to do something successfully)

   Synonym: parvenir

   Je suis finalement arrivé à réparer cette porte. ― I finally managed to repair that door.

   Je n’arrive pas à croire que tu manges ce que le médecin t’a prescrit de ne pas manger.[1]

   I can't believe you're eating what the doctor told you not to eat.

1. • 2015, Claude Nativel, Comme le phénix...:

     Je n’avais aucune nouvelle de la situation politique dans notre pauvre pays, je ne savais pas ce que j’allais trouver en y foulant son sol, si nous arrivions à passer la frontière du pays voisin sans nous faire arrêter.

     I had no news of the political situation in our poor country, I didn't know what I would find when I set foot on its soil, if we were able to cross the neighboring country's border without being arrested.

2. to obtain a level of success or fame

• → German: arrivieren (“to succeed”)

• “arriver”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Old French ariver.

arriver

1. to arrive

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

• French: arriver

• arrivaïr (Guernsey)

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin adrīpāre. Synchronically a- +‎ rive +‎ -er.

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arriver

1. (Jersey) to arrive

• parti (“to leave”)