Word
Mais il y a une heure, le brouillard est arrivé.
Meaning
But an hour ago, the fog arrived.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Mais il y a une heure, le brouillard est arrivé.
être
to be
une
a / an (feminine)
mais
but
arriver
to arrive
Questions & Answers about Mais il y a une heure, le brouillard est arrivé.
I know il y a means "there is", so why does it translate to "ago" here?
Why do we use est instead of a for the past tense of arriver?
Arriver is one of the specific verbs of motion or change of state (often called the Dr. Mrs. Vandertramp verbs) that require être as their helping verb in the passé composé, rather than avoir.