arranger

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd

Proto-Italic *ad

Proto-Italic *ad-

Latin ad-

Old French a-

Proto-Indo-European *(H)rek-der.

Proto-Celtic *reketi

Gaulish *rekosbor.?

Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ-der.

Proto-Germanic *rinkanąder.

Proto-Germanic *rankaz

Frankish *rankbor.?

Vulgar Latin *rencus

Old French reng

Proto-Italic *-āzi

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Latin -ereinflu.

Latin -āre

Old French -ier

Old French rengier

Old French arangierbor.

Middle English arengen

English arrange

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English arranger

From arrange + -er.

Noun

arranger (plural arrangers)

1. One who arranges.
2. Digital keyboard to play music with accompaniment styles.

Translations

one who arranges

• Azerbaijani: təşkilatçı (az)
• Finnish: järjestäjä (fi); sovittaja (fi) (in music)
• Hindi: प्रबंधक (hi) m (prabandhak), आयोजक (hi) m (āyojak)
• Polish: aranżer m, aranżerka f
• Portuguese: arrumador (pt)
• Spanish: arreglista m or f
• Swedish: arrangör (sv) c

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French arangier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ʁɑ̃.ʒe/

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• (Louisiana) IPA^(key): [a.ɾɑ̃.ʒe]
• Hyphenation: a‧rran‧ger

Verb

arranger

1. (transitive) to arrange
2. (transitive, colloquial) to suit, to be convenient

   Désolé, ça ne m'arrange pas.

   Sorry, that doesn't work for me.

3. (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!

4. (reflexive) to be pleasant (towards someone); to get along (with someone)
5. (Louisiana, transitive) to repair, to fix, to mend

   Synonym: réparer

6. (Louisiana, transitive) to adjust
7. (Louisiana, transitive) to arrange, set up, to organize
8. (Louisiana, transitive) to prepare, to fix (a meal); to make (a bed)
9. (Louisiana, transitive) to suit, to please, to satisfy
10. (Louisiana, transitive) to castrate, to spay (an animal)
11. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (Louisiana, transitive) to build

    Synonym: construire

12. (Louisiana, reflexive) to get (oneself) ready, to get fixed up, to prepare oneself
13. (Louisiana, reflexive) to come to terms (with one another)
14. (Louisiana, reflexive, of the weather) to clear up, to dissipate

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)

infinitive	simple	arranger
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	arrangeant /a.ʁɑ̃.ʒɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		arrangé /a.ʁɑ̃.ʒe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	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		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
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 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• être bien arrangé
• mariage arrangé

Related terms

• arrangeable
• arrangeage
• arrangeant
• arrangement
• arrangeur

Descendants

• → Asturian: arranchar
• → Catalan: arranjar
• → German: arrangieren
• → Portuguese: arranjar
• → Romanian: aranja

Further reading

• “arranger”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
• Dictionary of Louisiana French: As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities (2009; →ISBN; →ISBN)

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Verb

arranger

1. imperative of arrangere