Questions & Answers about Le bus arrive à l'arrêt.
French verbs of the first group (ending in -er) form the 3rd-person singular present simple by dropping -er and adding -e. So for arriver:
• je j’arrive
• tu arrives
• il/elle arrive
The extra -s appears in tu and ils/elles, not in il/elle.
It’s the présent de l’indicatif. Full conjugation:
• je j’arrive
• tu arrives
• il/elle arrive
• nous arrivons
• vous arrivez
• ils/elles arrivent
À with a grave accent is the preposition “at/to.” A without an accent is the third‐person singular present of avoir (“has”). Accent marks help distinguish them:
• Il a (“He has…”)
• Il va à (“He goes to/arrives at…”)
In IPA: [lə bys aʁiv a laʁɛ]. Roughly:
• Le → “luh” ([lə])
• bus → “buss” ([bys])
• arrive → “ah-reev” ([aʁiv], silent final e)
• à → “ah” ([a])
• l’arrêt → “lah-reht” ([laʁɛ])
Note that borrowed words like bus keep their final s sound, and there is no mandatory liaison here.