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:

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

From Middle French arriver, from Old French ariver, from Vulgar Latin *arripō, from Latin ad + rīpa; equivalent to a- + rive + -er. Compare Italian arrivare, Spanish and Catalan arribar.

• 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

   • 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.

   Je suis finalement arrivé à réparer cette porte.

   I finally managed to repair that door.

5. 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)

From Old French ariver, from Late Latin *arrīpare, from Latin ad + rīpa (“shore”).

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arriver

1. (Jersey) to arrive

• parti (“to leave”)