arranger
English
French
Etymology
From Old French arangier
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.ʁɑ̃.ʒe/
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Verb
arranger
- to arrange
- (colloquial) to suit, to be convenient
- Désolé, ça ne m'arrange pas
- Sorry, that doesn't work for me.
- Désolé, ça ne m'arrange pas
- (reflexive) to be set for
- 1829, Victor Hugo, Le Dernier Jour d’un condamné
- Depuis l’heure où mon arrêt m’a été prononcé, combien sont morts qui s’arrangeaient pour une longue vie !
- Ever since my sentence was passed, how many who were set for a long life have died!
- Depuis l’heure où mon arrêt m’a été prononcé, combien sont morts qui s’arrangeaient pour une longue vie !
- 1829, Victor Hugo, Le Dernier Jour d’un condamné
- (Louisiana) to build
- Synonym: construire
- (Louisiana, Cajun French) to fix
Conjugation
This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written arrange- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a “soft” /ʒ/ and not a “hard” /ɡ/). This spelling-change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.
Conjugation of arranger (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | arrangeant /a.ʁɑ̃.ʒɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | arrangé /a.ʁɑ̃.ʒe/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | arranger | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | arrangeant /a.ʁɑ̃.ʒɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | arrange /a.ʁɑ̃ʒ/ |
arranges /a.ʁɑ̃ʒ/ |
arrange /a.ʁɑ̃ʒ/ |
arrangeons /a.ʁɑ̃.ʒɔ̃/ |
arrangez /a.ʁɑ̃.ʒe/ |
arrangent /a.ʁɑ̃ʒ/ |
| imperfect | arrangeais /a.ʁɑ̃.ʒɛ/ |
arrangeais /a.ʁɑ̃.ʒɛ/ |
arrangeait /a.ʁɑ̃.ʒɛ/ |
arrangions /a.ʁɑ̃.ʒjɔ̃/ |
arrangiez /a.ʁɑ̃.ʒje/ |
arrangeaient /a.ʁɑ̃.ʒɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | arrangeai /a.ʁɑ̃.ʒe/ |
arrangeas /a.ʁɑ̃.ʒa/ |
arrangea /a.ʁɑ̃.ʒa/ |
arrangeâmes /a.ʁɑ̃.ʒam/ |
arrangeâtes /a.ʁɑ̃.ʒat/ |
arrangèrent /a.ʁɑ̃.ʒɛʁ/ | |
| future | arrangerai /a.ʁɑ̃ʒ.ʁe/ |
arrangeras /a.ʁɑ̃ʒ.ʁa/ |
arrangera /a.ʁɑ̃ʒ.ʁa/ |
arrangerons /a.ʁɑ̃ʒ.ʁɔ̃/ |
arrangerez /a.ʁɑ̃ʒ.ʁe/ |
arrangeront /a.ʁɑ̃ʒ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | arrangerais /a.ʁɑ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/ |
arrangerais /a.ʁɑ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/ |
arrangerait /a.ʁɑ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/ |
arrangerions /a.ʁɑ̃.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
arrangeriez /a.ʁɑ̃.ʒə.ʁje/ |
arrangeraient /a.ʁɑ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | arrange /a.ʁɑ̃ʒ/ |
arranges /a.ʁɑ̃ʒ/ |
arrange /a.ʁɑ̃ʒ/ |
arrangions /a.ʁɑ̃.ʒjɔ̃/ |
arrangiez /a.ʁɑ̃.ʒje/ |
arrangent /a.ʁɑ̃ʒ/ |
| imperfect2 | arrangeasse /a.ʁɑ̃.ʒas/ |
arrangeasses /a.ʁɑ̃.ʒas/ |
arrangeât /a.ʁɑ̃.ʒa/ |
arrangeassions /a.ʁɑ̃.ʒa.sjɔ̃/ |
arrangeassiez /a.ʁɑ̃.ʒa.sje/ |
arrangeassent /a.ʁɑ̃.ʒas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | arrange /a.ʁɑ̃ʒ/ |
— | arrangeons /a.ʁɑ̃.ʒɔ̃/ |
arrangez /a.ʁɑ̃.ʒe/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Descendants
- German: arrangieren
Further reading
- “arranger” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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