arriver à quelqu'un

to happen to someone

→ arriver
phrase Very common #1,032
to happen to someone Used to describe an event or situation affecting someone. In everyday speech, quelqu'un is often replaced by an indirect object pronoun: Il lui est arrivé un accident means “He had an accident.”
FR: On ne sait jamais ce qui peut arriver à quelqu'un.
EN: You never know what might happen to someone.