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Webster 1913 Edition
Arranger
Ar-ran′ger
,Noun.
One who arranges.
Burke.
Webster 1828 Edition
Arranger
ARRANGER
,Noun.
Definition 2025
arranger
arranger
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.ʁɑ̃.ʒe/
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
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)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | arranger | avoir arrangé | |||||
| gerund | en arrangeant | en ayant arrangé | |||||
| present participle | arrangeant /a.ʁɑ̃.ʒɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | arrangé /a.ʁɑ̃.ʒe/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| 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/ |
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| past historic1 | arrangeai /a.ʁɑ̃.ʒe/ |
arrangeas /a.ʁɑ̃.ʒa/ |
arrangea /a.ʁɑ̃.ʒa/ |
arrangeâmes /a.ʁɑ̃.ʒam/ |
arrangeâtes /a.ʁɑ̃.ʒat/ |
arrangèrent /a.ʁɑ̃.ʒɛʁ/ |
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| 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/ |
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| 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/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | arrange /a.ʁɑ̃ʒ/ |
arranges /a.ʁɑ̃ʒ/ |
arrange /a.ʁɑ̃ʒ/ |
arrangions /a.ʁɑ̃.ʒjɔ̃/ |
arrangiez /a.ʁɑ̃.ʒje/ |
arrangent /a.ʁɑ̃ʒ/ |
| imperfect1 |
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/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | arrange /a.ʁɑ̃ʒ/ |
— | arrangeons /a.ʁɑ̃.ʒɔ̃/ |
arrangez /a.ʁɑ̃.ʒe/ |
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Descendants
- German: arrangieren