arrêteras

Arrêteras is a French verb form that represents the second-person singular future tense of the verb arrêter, meaning “to stop” or “to halt.” In standard modern French, this form is normally written with the subject pronoun: tu arrêteras. The bare form arrête ras is uncommon in contemporary writing, because French normally couples the verb form with a subject pronoun when it stands alone in a clause.

Morphology and usage

Arrêter as a regular -er verb forms its future simple endings by attaching -as to the infinitive stem arrêter: arrêter + as yields arrêteras. The spelling retains the circumflex on the ê in the stem (arrêt-), and pronunciation reflects the expected future tense pattern. In practice, the most common spelling in modern French is tu arrêteras, with the pronoun explicitly present. The standalone form arrêteras may appear in dictionaries, pedagogical material, or poetic/archaic contexts to illustrate the conjugation, or in written forms that omit the subject pronoun for stylistic reasons.

Pronunciation and orthography

Arrêteras is pronounced roughly [aʁɛ.te.ʁa], with the final -as pronounced as a separate syllable in continuous text. The acute accent on ê marks the closed vowel in the stem. Although arrêteras exists as a valid inflected form, it is rarely used without a subject pronoun in contemporary French.

Examples

- Tu arrêteras ce bruit à la tombée de la nuit. (You will stop this noise at nightfall.)

- Dans des textes anciens, on peut rencontrer arrêteras used in a form without an explicit subject pronoun.

See also

Conjugation of arrêter; French future simple; usage of subject pronouns in French verb forms.