arrêterons

Arrêter is a French verb meaning to stop, to halt, or to arrest. Arrêterons is the first-person plural future simple form of arrêter, corresponding to nous arrêterons. It expresses a planned or anticipated action in which the subject stops something or someone in the future.

Arrêter is a regular -er verb in its conjugation. To form the futur simple for nous, you take the infinitive arrêt er and add the ending -ons, yielding arrêterons. The stem retains the circumflex on the first e (ê), and there are no stem changes for this tense.

Usage notes: Arrêter can be used transitively to stop or bring to a halt a thing or person (Nous arrêterons le véhicule. We will stop the vehicle). It can also mean to arrest someone in a law-enforcement sense (Nous arrêterons le suspect). Additionally, it appears with the construction arrêter de + infinitive to indicate stopping an ongoing action (Nous arrêterons de parler). The noun arrêt denotes a stop, halt, or pause, and is related to the verb meaning.

Etymology: Arrêter derives from Old French arreter, ultimately from Latin arrestare, related to the English “arrest.” The sense broadens from “to halt” to “to stop” and, in the legal sense, to “to arrest.”

See also: French verb conjugation, other forms of arrêter, related verbs such as cesser or stopper.