I cant find an explanation for the meaning of 'nous est arrivé'

Question

how does this 'nous est arrivé' come together to mean "happening to us"?

Chris Wirt · Accepted Answer

Arriver à qqn tpyically describes a situation where someone passively experiences something. To give you some feeling for this phrase, here are a few examples:
Qu'est-ce qui t'est arrivé? -- What happened to you?Ça arrive à tout le monde de faire des erreurs. -- It happens to everyone to make mistakes.

Maarten Kamp · Answer

Chirag,

which exercise or lesson does this come from ? What is the full sentence - you have only provided the indirect object and verb ?

Without the details, this looks, rightly or wrongly, like it could be homework.

The meanings and conjugation of ‘ arriver ‘ can be found in online dictionaries :

https://www.wordreference.com/fren/arriver

Jacquie Vickery · Answer

I think there may be a subject missing or understood. If you put an 'il' first, meaning 'it'. then you have the passive form - it happened to us.

il= it, nous=to us , est arrive perfect tence of to happen, > it to us has happened. Does that make sense?