🇫🇷 French

arrivée

feminine

l' arrivée

arrival

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arrivée
/laʁive/
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How do you say arrivée in French?

IPA
/laʁive/

How do you pronounce arrivée in French?

arrivée is pronounced /laʁive/ in French.

Example sentences

L'arrivée prévue du train a été retardée d'une heure.

The scheduled arrival of the train was delayed by one hour.

La première arrivée à la ligne d'arrivée était celle d'une coureuse très rapide.

The first arrival at the finish line was that of a very fast female runner.

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Why is it feminine?

Arrivée is feminine because it derives from the Old French feminine past participle of "arriver" (from Latin "ad-ripāre," meaning to come to shore), and in French, past participles used as nouns retain the grammatical gender of their original form. The feminine ending "-ée" became standardized for this noun, likely reinforced by analogy with other feminine nouns ending in "-ée" derived from past participles.

What is the French word for arrival?

The French word for arrival is l' arrivée — feminine.

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