eventually

English

Etymology

eventual +‎ -ly

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /əˈvɛn.tjuː.ə.li/, /əˈvɛn.tjə.li/

Adverb

eventually (not comparable)

1. In the end.
   • 2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage,

     It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.

2. (mathematics, of a sequence) For some tail.

Synonyms

• at last
• finally
• yet
• ultimately
• in the end

See also

• frequently

Translations

in the end

• Afrikaans: uiteindelik (af), ten slotte (af)
• Bulgarian: накрая (bg) (nakrája)
• Catalan: finalment (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 最後 (cmn), 最后 (cmn) (zuìhòu), 終於 (cmn), 终于 (cmn) (zhōngyú), 終究 (cmn), 终究 (cmn) (zhōngjiū)

• Czech: konečně (cs), nakonec (cs)
• Dutch: uiteindelijk (nl)
• Finnish: lopulta (fi), viimeinkin (fi)
• French: finalement (fr), à terme (fr), à la fin (fr)
• German: schließlich (de), letztendlich (de)
• Indonesian: akhirnya (id), pada akhirnya
• Interlingua: finalmente (ia), al fin (ia)
• Italian: alla fine (it), infine (it)

• Japanese: とうとう (ja) (tōtō), 結局 (ja) (けっきょく, kekkyoku), ついに (ja) (tsui-ni), 最終的に (ja) (さいしゅうてきに, saishūteki ni), やっと (ja) (yatto)
• Korean: 결국 (ko) (gyeolguk) (結局 (ko))
• Macedonian: на крајот (mk) (na krájot)
• Norwegian: omsider (no), etter hvert (no), til slutt (no)
• Polish: w końcu (pl)
• Portuguese: finalmente (pt), enfim (pt)
• Russian: в конце концов (ru) (v koncé koncóv), в конечном счёте (ru) (v konéčnom sčóte), в итоге (ru) (v itóge)
• Scottish Gaelic: aig a’ cheann thall (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian: eventualno (sh), konačno (sh), na kraju (sh), na koncu (sh)
• Spanish: al final (es), finalmente (es)
• Swedish: så småningom (sv), slutigen (sv), till slut (sv)
• Turkish: sonunda (tr)

See also

• sooner or later