different between arrange vs arranger

English

Etymology

From Middle English arengen, arrangen (“to draw up a battle line”), from Old French arengier, arrangier (“to put in a line, put in a row”), from reng, rang, ranc (“line, row, rank”), from Frankish *hring (“ring”), from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“something bent or curved”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to bend, turn”). Akin to Old High German hring, ring, Old Frisian hring, Old English hring, hrincg (“ring”), Old Norse hringr (“ring, circle, queue, sword; ship”). More at ring.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???e?nd?/
• Rhymes: -e?nd?

Verb

arrange (third-person singular simple present arranges, present participle arranging, simple past and past participle arranged)

1. (transitive) To set up; to organize; to put into an orderly sequence or arrangement.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To plan; to prepare in advance.
3. (music, transitive, intransitive) To prepare and adapt an already-written composition for presentation in other than its original form.

Usage notes

• This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs

Derived terms

• arrangement

Translations

French

Verb

arrange

1. first-person singular present indicative of arranger
2. third-person singular present indicative of arranger
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of arranger
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of arranger
5. second-person singular imperative of arranger

Anagrams

• rangera

English

Etymology

arrange +? -er

Noun

arranger (plural arrangers)

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

Translations

French

Etymology

From Old French arangier

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.???.?e/

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. (Louisiana) to build

   Synonym: construire

5. (Louisiana, Cajun French) 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” /?/ and not a “hard” /?/). This spelling-change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.

Derived terms

• mariage arrangé

Descendants

• ? Catalan: arranjar
• ? German: arrangieren
• ? Portuguese: arranjar
• ? Romanian: aranja

Further reading

• “arranger” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

arranger

1. imperative of arrangere