Friday, May 1, 2009

Arriver

Context: heard, saw, learned... has to do with for example Descartes "tout ce qui se fait ou qui arrive de nouveau" - in this case, happens

arriver /aʀive/ (conjugate⇒) (+ v être)
  1. intransitive verb
    1. gen to arrive;
      Sport to finish;
      ~ à/de Paris to arrive in/from Paris;
    1. to come;
      ~ en courant to come running up;
    1. ~ à to reach [level, agreement];
      to find [solution];
      ~ (jusqu')à qn to reach sb;
    1. ~ à faire to manage to do;
      je n'y arrive pas I can't do it;
      ~ à ses fins to achieve one's ends;
    1. en ~ à to come to;
    1. to happen.
  1. verb, impersonal qu'est-il arrivé? what happened? (à to);
    il m'arrive d'y aller, il arrive que j'y aille I sometimes go there.

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