arranger

From arrange +‎ -er.

arranger (plural arrangers)

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

Inherited from Old French arangier.

• IPA^(key): /a.ʁɑ̃.ʒe/

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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

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.

• mariage arrangé

• arrangement
• arrangeur

• “arranger”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

arranger

1. imperative of arrangere