arrive

See also: arrivé

English

Etymology

From Middle English arriven, ariven, from Old French ariver, from Early Medieval Latin adrīpāre (“to land, come ashore”), derived from Latin rīpa (“shore, river-bank”). Displaced native oncome, tocome.

For the semantic evolution, compare Old English ġelandian, ġelendan, lendan (“to arrive at land; land”) > Middle English alenden, landen (“to arrive; arrive at shore; land”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ə-rīvʹ, IPA^(key): /əˈɹaɪv/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -aɪv

Verb

arrive (third-person singular simple present arrives, present participle arriving, simple past and past participle arrived)

1. (intransitive, copulative) To reach; to get to a certain place.

   We arrived at the hotel and booked in.

   He arrived home for two days.

   • 2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist‎, volume 407, number 8837, page 74:

     In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.

2. (intransitive) To obtain a level of success or fame; to succeed.

   He had finally arrived on Broadway.

   • 2002, Donald Cole, Immigrant City: Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1845-1921, page 58:

     Evidence that the Irish had arrived socially was the abrupt decline in the number of newspaper articles accusing them of brawling and other crimes.

3. (intransitive) To come; said of time.

   The time has arrived for us to depart.

4. (intransitive) To happen or occur.
   • 1666, Edmund Waller, Instructions to a Painter:

     Happy! to whom this glorious death arrives.

5. (transitive, archaic) To reach; to come to.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     Ere he arrive the happy isle.

   • 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

     Ere we could arrive the point proposed.

   • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, (please specify |part=Prologue or Rpilogue, or |canto=I to CXXIX):

     Arrive at last the blessed goal.

6. (intransitive, obsolete) To bring to shore.
   • 1618, George Chapman, A Hymn to Apollo:

     and made the sea-trod ship arrive them

Usage notes

• Additional, nonstandard, and uncommon past tense and past participle are, respectively, arrove and arriven, formed by analogy to verbs like drove and driven.

Antonyms

• depart

Derived terms

• arrivance
• arrivant
• arrive at
• it is better to travel hopefully than to arrive
• rearrive
• unarrived
• unarriving

 

Related terms

• arrival

Translations

to reach

Afrikaans: aankom (af), arriveer Albanian: arrij (sq) Amharic: ደረሰ (däräsä) Arabic: وَصَلَ (ar) (waṣala) Hijazi Arabic: وصل (wiṣil, waṣal) Moroccan Arabic: وصل (wṣal) South Levantine Arabic: وصل (wíṣil, wáṣal) Aragonese: plegar (an) Argobba: ዴረሳ (dēräsā) Armenian: ժամանել (hy) (žamanel), հասնել (hy) (hasnel) Aromanian: agiungu Azerbaijani: gəlmək (az), gəlib çatmaq, varid olmaq Baba Malay: sampei Bashkir: (to a location near the speaker) килеп етеү (kilep yetew), (to a location far from the speaker) барып етеү (barıp yetew) Basque: heldu Belarusian: (on foot) дахо́дзіць impf (daxódzicʹ), дайсці́ pf (dajscí), (by vehicle) даязджа́ць impf (dajazdžácʹ), дае́хаць pf (dajéxacʹ); (by airplane) далята́ць impf (daljatácʹ), даляце́ць pf (daljacjécʹ) Bengali: আগমন করা (agomon kora) Bulgarian: достигам (bg) (dostigam) Burmese: ရောက် (my) (rauk) Catalan: arribar (ca) Central Sierra Miwok: hý·ja Cherokee: ᎦᎷᎦ (galuga) Chichewa: fika Chinese: Cantonese: 到 (dou3) Mandarin: 到達／到达 (zh) (dàodá), 到 (zh) (dào) Czech: dorážet impf, dorazit (cs) pf; (on foot) docházet (cs) impf, dojít (cs) pf; (by a wheeled vehicle) dojíždět (cs) impf, dojet (cs) pf; (by plane) doletovat impf, dolétat impf, doletět pf Danish: ankomme Dutch: bereiken (nl), aankomen (nl), arriveren (nl) Esperanto: alveni (eo) Estonian: saabuma (et) Faroese: koma (fo) Finnish: saapua (fi), tulla perille French: arriver (fr) Friulian: rivâ Galician: chegar (gl) German: gelangen (de), kommen (de), erreichen (de), ankommen (de) Gothic: 𐌰𐍄𐍆𐌰𐍂𐌾𐌰𐌽 (atfarjan) Greek: φτάνω (el) (ftáno) Ancient Greek: πάρειμι (páreimi), ἀφικνέομαι (aphiknéomai), ἱκνέομαι (hiknéomai), ἀφικάνω (aphikánō), ἱκάνω (hikánō) Hebrew: הִגִּיעַ (he) (higía) Hindi: आना (hi) (ānā), पहुँचना (hi) (pahũcnā), आगमन (hi) m (āgman) Hungarian: elér (hu) Icelandic: koma (is) Ido: arivar (io) Italian: arrivare (it), giungere (it) Japanese: 着く (ja) (つく, tsuku), 到着する (ja) (tōchaku suru) Kabuverdianu: txiga, txegá Kongo: kukuma Lao: ຮອດ (hǭt), ເຖິງ (thœng) Latgalian: dativēt, atīt, atsarast Latin: advenio (la), pervenio (la), devenio Latvian: ierasties, atbraukt (lv) Lithuanian: atvykti (lt) Low German: German Low German: ankamen (nds) Manchu: ᡳᠰᡳᠨ᠋ᠠᠮᠪᡳ (isinambi) Maori: tae, taetae (not all together) Maranao: danon, oma Marathi: पोहोचणे (pohocṇe), येणे (yeṇe) Mbyá Guaraní: vaẽ Mongolian: Cyrillic: хүрэх (mn) (xürex) Mongolian: ᠬᠦᠷᠬᠦ (kürkü) Nahuatl: ahci, ehco Norman: arriver North Frisian: uunkem (Föhr-Amrum) Norwegian: ankomme Occitan: arribar (oc) Old English: ancuman Persian: رسیدن (fa) (residan) Polish: (on foot) dochodzić (pl) impf, dojść (pl) pf; (by vehicle) dojeżdżać (pl) impf, dojechać (pl) pf; (by airplane) dolatywać impf dolecieć (pl) pf Portuguese: chegar (pt) Quechua: chamuy Romanian: ajunge (ro), sosi (ro) Romansch: arrivar, rivar, river, arivar Russian: (on foot) доходи́ть (ru) impf (doxodítʹ), дойти́ (ru) pf (dojtí); (by vehicle) доезжа́ть (ru) impf (dojezžátʹ), дое́хать (ru) pf (dojéxatʹ); (by airplane) долета́ть (ru) impf (doletátʹ), долете́ть (ru) pf (doletétʹ) Sardinian: arribbai, arribbare, arrivare, arribbari, erribbai Scots: win tae Serbo-Croatian: dospjeti (sh) pf Cyrillic: доспети pf Roman: dospeti (sh) pf, (by airplane) doletjeti (sh) pf Sicilian: arrivari (scn), arruvari (scn) Slovak: dôjsť pf, doraziť Slovene: prispeti (sl) pf Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: (on foot) pśichadaś impf, pśiś pf; (by vehicle) pśijězdźowaś impf, pśijěś pf Upper Sorbian: (on foot) dochadźeć impf, dóńć (hsb) pf: (by vehicle) přijěć pf Spanish: llegar (es) Swahili: kufika Swedish: anlända (sv), ankomma (sv) Tagalog: dumating Tetum: to'o Thai: ถึง (th) (tʉ̌ng), สู่ (th) (sùu), มาถึง (maa-tʉ̌ng) Tumbuka: fika Turkish: varmak (tr) Tuvan: чедер (çeder) Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎙𐎊 (mġy) Ukrainian: (on foot) дохо́дити impf (doxódyty), дійти́ pf (dijtý); (by vehicle) доїжджа́ти impf (dojiždžáty), дої́хати pf (dojíxaty) Urdu: آنا (ur) (ānā), پہنچنا (pahũcnā) Venetan: rivar (vec) Vietnamese: đến (vi) Walloon: ariver (wa), avni (wa) Welsh: cyrraedd (cy) Yakut: тиий (tiiy) Yiddish: אָנקומען (onkumen), קומען (kumen)

to get to a certain place

Afrikaans: aankom (af), arriveer Aklanon: abot Albanian: vij (sq) Arabic: وَصَلَ (ar) (waṣala) Moroccan Arabic: وصل (wṣal) Armenian: ժամանել (hy) (žamanel), հասնել (hy) (hasnel) Belarusian: прыбыва́ць impf (prybyvácʹ), прыбы́ць pf (prybýcʹ); (on foot) прыхо́дзіць impf (pryxódzicʹ), пры́йсці pf (prýjsci), (by vehicle) прыязджа́ць impf (pryjazdžácʹ), прые́хаць pf (pryjéxacʹ); (by airplane) прылята́ць impf (pryljatácʹ), прыляце́ць (pryljacjécʹ) Bulgarian: стигам (bg) (stigam), пристигам (bg) (pristigam) Burmese: ရောက် (my) (rauk) Catalan: arribar (ca) Cebuano: abot Central Sierra Miwok: hý·ja Cherokee: ᎦᎷᎦ (galuga) Chinese: Mandarin: 到達／到达 (zh) (dàodá), 到 (zh) (dào) Czech: dorážet impf, dorazit (cs) pf; (on foot) přicházet (cs) impf, přijít (cs) pf; (by a wheeled vehicle) přijíždět (cs) impf, přijet (cs) pf; (by plane) přilétat impf, přiletět pf; přicestovat; přibývat impf přibýt pf Danish: ankomme Dutch: aankomen (nl), arriveren (nl), bereiken (nl) Esperanto: alveni (eo) Even: эм- (əm-) Evenki: эмэ- (əmə-) Finnish: saapua (fi), tulla perille French: arriver (fr) Friulian: rivâ Galician: chegar (gl) German: ankommen (de), einlangen (de) (Austrian German), einlaufen (de), eintreffen (de) Greek: φτάνω (el) (ftáno) Ancient: ἀφικνέομαι (aphiknéomai) Hebrew: הִגִּיעַ (he) (higía) Hindi: पहुँचना (hi) (pahũcnā) Hungarian: érkezik (hu), megérkezik (hu) Ido: arivar (io) Italian: arrivare (it), giungere (it) Japanese: 着く (ja) (つく, tsuku), 到着する (ja) (とうちゃくする, tōchaku-suru) Kazakh: Arabic: كەلۋ, كەلىپ جەتۋ, كەلىپ ٴتۇسۋ Cyrillic: келу (kk) (kelu), келіп жету (kelıp jetu), келіп түсу (kelıp tüsu) Latin: kelý, kelip jetý, kelip túsý Khmer: ដល់ (km) (dɑl) Kituba: kuma, kukuma Korean: 도착하다 (ko) (dochakhada) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: گەیشتن (geyiştin) Lao: ຈວບ (chūap), ຈູ້ (chū), ຊອດ (sǭt), ດົນ (don), ມາ (mā), ເຖິງ (thœng) Latin: advenio (la), pervenio (la), devenio Lingala: kóma Malay: please add this translation if you can Mansaka: abot, datung Maori: tae, taetae (not all together) Maranao: oma Marathi: पोहोचणे (pohocṇe) Norman: arriver Norwegian: ankomme Occitan: arribar (oc) Papiamentu: yega Polish: przybywać (pl) impf, przybyć (pl) pf; (on foot) przychodzić (pl) impf, przyjść (pl) pf; (by vehicle) przyjeżdżać (pl) impf, przyjechać (pl) pf; (by airplane) przylatywać (pl) impf, przylecieć (pl) pf Portuguese: chegar (pt) Quechua: chayay Romanian: ajunge (ro) Romansch: arrivar, rivar, river, arivar Russian: прибыва́ть (ru) impf (pribyvátʹ), прибы́ть (ru) pf (pribýtʹ), (on foot) приходи́ть (ru) impf (prixodítʹ), прийти́ (ru) pf (prijtí); (by vehicle) приезжа́ть (ru) impf (prijezžátʹ), прие́хать (ru) pf (prijéxatʹ) Sardinian: arribbai, arribbare, arrivare, arribbari, erribbai Scots: win tae Sicilian: arrivari (scn), arruvari (scn) Slovak: prísť pf, prichádzať impf Sorbian: Upper Sorbian: přichadźeć impf, přińć (hsb) pf Spanish: llegar (es), arribar (es) Swedish: komma fram (sv), anlända (sv), ankomma (sv) Tagalog: dumating Tausug: datung Thai: มา (th) (maa), ถึง (th) (tʉ̌ng) Turkish: varmak (tr) Tuvan: келир (kelir), чедип келир (çedip kelir), ап чедер (ap çeder) Ukrainian: (on foot) прихо́дити (uk) impf (pryxódyty), прийти́ (uk) pf (pryjtý); (by vehicle) приїжджа́ти impf (pryjiždžáty), приїзди́ти impf (pryjizdýty), приї́хати pf (pryjíxaty) Urdu: پہنچنا (pahũcnā) Venetan: rivar (vec) Vietnamese: đến (vi) Walloon: ariver (wa) Welsh: cyrraedd (cy) Western Bukidnon Manobo: uma Yakut: кэл (kel)

to obtain a level of success or fame

Albanian: arrij (sq) Arabic: Moroccan Arabic: نجح (njaḥ) Bulgarian: постигам (bg) (postigam) Dutch: bereiken (nl), het gemaakt (nl) hebben Finnish: saapua (fi), tulla perille French: réussir (fr), percer (fr) German: schaffen (de) Hebrew: הִגִּיעַ (he) (higía) Hungarian: befut (hu), beérkezik (hu) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: گەیشتن (geyiştin) Polish: dojść (pl) (do czegoś) Portuguese: vencer (pt) Russian: достига́ть (ru) impf (dostigátʹ), дости́чь (ru) pf (dostíčʹ) Slovak: dosiahnuť Spanish: lograr (es), triunfar (es), tener éxito Tagalog: dumating Walloon: ariver (wa), reyussi (wa) (dins l' veye)

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Translations to be checked

Swedish: (please verify) anlända (sv), (please verify) ankomma (sv) (a few situations, as when a train arrives to the station) Telugu: (please verify) చేరు (te) (cēru), (please verify) చేరుకొను (te) (cērukonu)

Anagrams

• Rivera, Vierra, ravier, varier

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ʁiv/

• Audio:

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Verb

arrive

1. inflection of arriver:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• rivera
• varier
• verrai
• virera