finally

English

Etymology

From Middle English finally, fynaly, fynally, fynaliche, fynalliche, equivalent to final +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaɪ.nəl.i/
• IPA^(key): /ˈfaɪ.nl̩.i/, /ˈfaɪn.li/

  • Audio (US):

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• Homophone: finely

Adverb

finally (not comparable)

1. At the end or conclusion; ultimately.

   The contest was long, but the Romans finally conquered.

2. (sequence) To finish (with); lastly (in the present).
   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 2, in The Celebrity:

     I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.

   • 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, 1993 edition, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 122:

     At any other time Jessamy would have laughed at the expressions that chased each other over his freckled face: crossness left over from his struggle with the baby; incredulity; distress; and finally delight.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:finally.

   Finally, I washed my dog.

3. (manner) Definitively, comprehensively.

   The question of his long-term success has now been finally settled.

Synonyms

• (ultimately): eventually; in the end; see also Thesaurus:finally
• (lastly): at last, at length, endly; see also Thesaurus:lastly
• (definitively): completely, thoroughly, totally; see also Thesaurus:completely

Antonyms

• (ultimately): initially

Derived terms

• final-fucking-ly

Translations

ultimately

• Armenian: վերջիվերջո (hy) (verǰiverǰo)
• Bulgarian: оконча́телно (bg) (okončátelno)
• Catalan: finalment (ca)
• Danish: til sidst, til slut, endelig
• Dutch: uiteindelijk (nl)
• Esperanto: fine (eo), finfine (emphatic)
• Estonian: lõpuks
• Finnish: vihdoinkin, lopulta (fi)
• French: enfin (fr)
• Georgian: ბოლოს და ბოლოს (bolos da bolos)
• German: schließlich (de)
• Greek: τελικά (el) (teliká)
• Hungarian: végül (hu)
• Icelandic: að lokum, loks, loksins (is)
• Italian: finalmente (it)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 結局 (kekkyoku), 終わりに (ja) (owari ni), 終いに (shimai ni)
• Latin: dēmum, aliquando (la), tandem
• Navajo: hajoobáʼágo
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: til slutt

  Nynorsk: til slutt

• Novial:
• Portuguese: no fim/final, por fim, enfim (pt)
• Russian: в конце́ концо́в (ru) (v koncé koncóv)
• Scottish Gaelic: aig a' cheann thall
• Slovene: končno (sl), nazadnje
• Spanish: por fin
• Swedish: slutligen (sv)
• Tamil: முடிவில் (muṭivil)
• Ukrainian: вре́шті-решт (vréšti-rešt)

lastly

• Arabic: أَخِيراً (ʔaḵīran)
• Armenian: վերջապես (hy) (verǰapes)
• Bulgarian: накрая (bg) (nakraja)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 終於／终于 (zh) (zhōngyú), 终于 (zh) (zhōngyú), 總算／总算 (zh) (zǒngsuàn), 总算 (zh) (zǒngsuàn)

• Czech: konečně (cs), nakonec (cs)
• Danish: til sidst, til slut, endelig
• Dutch: uiteindelijk (nl), ten slotte (nl)
• Esperanto: fine (eo), finfine (emphatic)
• Estonian: lõpuuks
• Finnish: lopulta (fi)
• French: enfin (fr)
• Georgian: საბოლოოდ (sabolood), ბოლოს (bolos)
• German: endlich (de)
• Greek: τελικά (el) (teliká)
• Hungarian: végül (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Icelandic: að lokum, að síðustu
• Japanese: 終に (ついに, tsui ni), 等々 (とうとう, tōtō)
• Navajo: hónáásiiʼ
• Polish: w końcu (pl)
• Portuguese: por último, por fim
• Russian: наконе́ц (ru) (nakonéc)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: на̏јзад, ко̀начно

  Roman: nȁjzad (sh), kònačno (sh)

• Slovene: končno (sl), naposled
• Swedish: avslutningsvis (sv)
• Tamil: கடைசியாக (kaṭaiciyāka)
• Ukrainian: зре́штою (uk) (zréštoju), нарешті (uk) (narešti)
• Vietnamese: cuối cùng (vi)
• Yiddish: סוף־כּל־סוף (sof-kl-sof)

definitively

• Bulgarian: напълно (bg) (napǎlno), безвъзвратно (bg) (bezvǎzvratno), оконча́телно (bg) (okončátelno)
• Danish: omsider, endelig
• Dutch: uiteindelijk (nl), ten slotte (nl)
• French: définitivement (fr)
• Georgian: საბოლოოდ (sabolood)
• German: definitiv (de)
• Hungarian: véglegesen, végleg (hu), egyszer s mindenkorra
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Icelandic: fyrir fullt og allt
• Portuguese: finalmente (pt)
• Russian: оконча́тельно (ru) (okončátelʹno)
• Slovene: dokončno
• Spanish: finalmente (es)
• Tamil: இறுதியாக (iṟutiyāka)
• Ukrainian: остато́чно (ostatóčno)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} finfine
• German: ^{(please verify)} schließlich (de), ^{(please verify)} letztendlich (de)
• Ido: ^{(please verify)} fine (io)
• Irish: ^{(please verify)} as deireadh na cúise, ^{(please verify)} i ndeireadh na mbeart
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} finalmente (it)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 마지막적으로 (majimakjeogeuro)
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} denique (la)
• Norman: ^{(please verify)} finnallement (Jersey)
• Slovene: ^{(please verify)} končno (sl)
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} finalmente (es), ^{(please verify)} por fin
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} äntligen (sv)