arrêteront

Arrêteront is the third-person plural future simple form of the French verb arrêter. It can mean “they will stop” or “they will arrest,” depending on the context, since arrêter has both senses in French: to stop something or to detain someone. The form is regular for an -er verb, using the infinitive as the stem and the standard future endings: j’arrêterai, tu arrêteras, il arrêtera, nous arrêterons, vous arrêterez, ils arrêteront.

Morphology and orthography are notable: the infinitive is arrêter, with a circumflex on the e; in the future tense the form arrête- persists with the endings, yielding arrêtera and arrêteont for the corresponding persons. The diacritic helps indicate pronunciation and historical vowel length in the language.

Usage notes:

- When the object is an action or event, arrêteront usually means “they will stop [doing something].” Example: Ils arrêteront le travail à midi. (They will stop work at noon.)

- When the object is a person or group, arrêteront often means “they will arrest [someone].” Example: Ils arrêteront les suspects demain. (They will arrest the suspects tomorrow.)

- The sense is clarified by context, or by including the direct object: arrêter quelqu’un (to arrest someone) versus arrêter quelque chose (to stop something).

In summary, arrête ront functions as a standard future-form for arrêter, with meaning determined by what follows the verb.