arranger

English

Etymology

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)
• 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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Verb

arranger

1. to arrange
2. (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) to build

   Synonym: construire

6. (Louisiana, Cajun) 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)

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

• mariage arrangé

Related terms

• arrangement
• arrangeur

Descendants

• → 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.

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

arranger

1. imperative of arrangere