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# arrive

«arrive» in Mova's school dictionary: **to get to a place at the end of a trip** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (arrive, arrives, arrived, arriving)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To arrive is to get to a place at the end of a trip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arrive/#m1)

2) To arrive is to come or happen: «Spring has arrived». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arrive/#m2)

3) To arrive at an answer is to reach it after thinking. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arrive/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

people or things that come and are added; also a time of reaching a place; phrases «arrive at» (a place, an answer), «arrive in» (a city or country), «arrive on time», «arrival»

### examples

- 12 guests arrive at the party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arrive/#x1)
- The train arrives at 3:15. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arrive/#x2)
- 8 more buses arrived. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arrive/#x3)
- If he leaves at 9 and the trip takes 2 hours, when will he arrive? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arrive/#x4)
- We arrived in Sydney at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arrive/#x5)
- Please arrive at school on time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arrive/#x6)
- The parcel arrived this morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arrive/#x7)
- Winter arrived early this year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arrive/#x8)
- We arrived at the answer together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arrive/#x9)
- The new baby arrived last week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arrive/#x10)
- The girls arrived just in time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arrive/#x11)

### note

More arriving means add. Trap: with times, the arrival time is the start time plus the length of the trip. Say «arrive at school», «arrive in London», never «arrive to». The noun is «arrival».

### In the corpora

- [Payday is the day pay arrives in the bank, often once a month, so money is usually lowest just before it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/5-where-money-comes-from/6/)
- [Families don't owe the street their news first; when a baby arrives, the kind reply is «congratulations».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/42-our-street-feuds-newcomers-and-stories-that-grow/15/)
- [When climates changed, forests shrank and, in some places, people arrived and hunted, so many giants died out.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/384-mammal-giants-of-the-past-paraceratherium-diprotodon-the-giant-beaver-and-gigantopithecus/5/)
- [Alice arrives at a court of justice.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/21-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-1/0/)
- [He has heard that a new, extra-powerful motor-car is arriving at Toad Hall this very morning.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/45-willows-ch6-part1-the-hour-of-toad/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «arrive» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arrive/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.