Past Historic / Passé Simple of the French verb arriver

The Past Historic / Passé Simple tense conjugations for the French verb arriver, along with their English translations.

arriver is a regular verb

Verb phrases

Past Historic / Passé Simple This is a literary tense, i.e. a tense used in writing, in everyday speech the Passé Composé is used to refer to past actions.		Scored
j'arrivai	I arrived
tu arrivas	you arrived
il arriva	he arrived
elle arriva	she arrived
nous arrivâmes	we arrived
vous arrivâtes	you arrived
ils arrivèrent	they arrived
elles arrivèrent	they arrived

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