arriver

Betekenis

1. to arrive (often followed by a location)
2. 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)
3. (informal) to cope, to manage
4. to be able to, to manage (to do something successfully)
5. 2015, Claude Nativel, Comme le phénix...
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. to obtain a level of success or fame

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/a.ʁi.ve/

Etymologie

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

Zinnen

Que va-t-il arriver ? «Elle sera brûlée , cette vigne .

Wat gebeurt er? “Het zal worden verbrand, deze wijnstok.