It happens in French 🇫🇷

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**Tips to remember the French phrase ‘ça arrive’:**

1. Associate the phrase with common experiences: Since ‘ça arrive’ means ‘it happens,’ think about it in the context of ordinary, everyday occurrences.
2. Link the phonetics: The French ‘ça’ sounds similar to the English ‘sa’ in ‘saw,’ and ‘arrive’ is a cognate with English, helping you recall the meaning easily ‘that comes’ or ‘it comes about.’

**Explanations:**

‘Ça arrive’ is a French phrase used to express that something happens or is happening, often used in casual conversation to acknowledge that some events or mistakes are common and to be expected.

**Other words that mean the same thing:**

– ‘Cela se produit’ can also mean ‘it happens,’ but is less colloquial than ‘ça arrive.’
– ‘Ça se passe’ is a bit more like ‘that’s going on.’
– ‘Il arrive que…’ can introduce a more complex sentence structure, meaning ‘it happens that…’

**Conjugations:**

The phrase ‘ça arrive’ contains the verb ‘arriver’ in the third person singular present tense. Since ‘ça’ translates to ‘it’ and ‘arrive’ is the form of the verb for ‘he/she/it arrives,’ the phrase can be seen in different tenses:

– **Infinitive:** arriver (‘to happen’)
– **Past (Passé Composé):** cela est arrivé (‘it happened’)
– **Present:** ça arrive (‘it happens’)
– **Future:** ça arrivera (‘it will happen’)
– **Imperfect:** ça arrivait (‘it was happening’)

**Examples of sentences using ‘ça arrive’:**

– **Present:** Ne t’en fais pas, ça arrive à tout le monde. (‘Don’t worry, it happens to everyone.’)
– **Past:** Je suis désolé, ça m’est arrivé hier. (‘I’m sorry, it happened to me yesterday.’)
– **Future:** Ne t’en fais pas, ça arrivera quand ça devra arriver. (‘Don’t worry, it will happen when it’s supposed to happen.’)
– **Imperfect:** Quand j’étais jeune, ça arrivait souvent. (‘When I was young, it used to happen often.’)

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