eventually

English

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Etymology

From eventual +‎ -ly. The third sense is influenced by any of several European languages, including Czech eventuálně, Swedish eventuellt.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ɪˈvɛn.t͡ʃuː.ə.li/, /ɪˈvɛn.t͡ʃʊ.li/, /ɪˈvɛn.tjʊ.li/
(US) IPA^(key): /ɪˈvɛn.t͡ʃu.ə.li/, /ɪˈvɛn.t͡ʃu.li/, /ɪˈvɛn.t͡ʃə.li/
Audio (US): (file)

Adverb

eventually (not comparable)

In the end; at some later time, especially after a long time, a series of problems, struggles, delays or setbacks.
Everyone's true colors will be revealed eventually.

She didn't arrive. Eventually, we started without her.

He hopes eventually to attend nursing school.
- 1955 January, Charles E. Lee, “The Glasgow Underground Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 24:
  Eventually, the railway opened on Monday, December 14, 1896, with a universal fare of 1d. collected at the turnstiles, and conditions were immediately chaotic, as many passengers travelled round and round, and refused to leave the cars.
- 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.
- 2024 November 9, Nick Paton Walsh, “Trump’s second term could bring chaos around the world. Will it work?”, in CNN‎^[1]:
  President Volodymyr Zelensky has known the day would come when the idea of another “forever war” became unappealing to NATO, and the world’s largest military alliance eventually sought to wind down its involvement.
(mathematics, of a sequence) For some tail; for all terms beyond some term; with only finitely many exceptions.
Eventually, all prime numbers are odd.
(proscribed, non-native speakers' English) Possibly, potentially, perhaps.
I will come eventually, but haven't decided yet.

Synonyms

(sense, in the end) at last, finally, yet, ultimately, in the end

Translations

in the end

Afrikaans: uiteindelik (af), ten slotte
Arabic: أَخِيرًا (ʔaḵīran), فِي اَلْآخِرْ (fī l-ʔāḵir)
Bulgarian: накра́я (bg) (nakrája)
Catalan: finalment (ca)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 最後 / 最后 (ceoi³ hau⁶), 終於 / 终于 (ci² zung¹), 始終 / 始终 (yue) (ci² zung¹), 終須 / 终须 (zung¹ seoi¹)

Mandarin: 最後 / 最后 (zh) (zuìhòu), 終於 / 终于 (zh) (zhōngyú) (used in the present), 終究 / 终究 (zh) (zhōngjiǔ), 終歸 / 终归 (zh) (zhōngguī), 始終 / 始终 (zh) (shǐzhōng)
Czech: konečně (cs), nakonec (cs)
Danish: til sidst, omsider (da), i sidste instans, med tiden, langt om længe (da)
Dutch: uiteindelijk (nl)
Esperanto: fine (eo)
Finnish: lopulta (fi), viimeinkin
French: finalement (fr), à terme (fr), à la fin (fr), finir par (fr) (verbal form)
German: schließlich (de), letztendlich (de)
Greek: τελικά (el) (teliká)
Ancient: χρόνῳ m (khrónōi)
Hungarian: végül (hu), végül is (hu)
Ido: tandem (io)
Indonesian: akhirnya (id), pada akhirnya
Interlingua: finalmente, al fin
Irish: i ndeireadh na dála
Italian: alla fine, 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(結局) (ko) (gyeolguk)
Latin: tandem (la)
Macedonian: на кра́јот (na krájot)
Maori: nāwai, nāwai rā, nāwai rā, tāria te wā
Norwegian: omsider
Bokmål: til slutt, etter hvert (no)

Nynorsk: til slutt
Old English: æt nīehstan
Polish: w końcu (pl), ostatecznie (pl), wreszcie (pl)
Portuguese: finalmente (pt), enfim (pt), no final das contas
Romanian: în fine, la urma urmei, în cele din urmă
Russian: в конце́ концо́в (ru) (v koncé koncóv), в коне́чном счёте (v konéčnom sčóte), в ито́ге (ru) (v itóge)
Scottish Gaelic: aig a' cheann thall
Serbo-Croatian: eventualno (sh), konačno (sh), na kraju, na koncu
Spanish: al final (es), finalmente (es), con el tiempo, a la larga
Sranan Tongo: te fu kaba
Swedish: så småningom (sv), slutligen (sv), till slut (sv), till sist, omsider (sv)
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: sonunda (tr)
Ukrainian: зре́штою (uk) (zréštoju)
Vietnamese: cuối cùng (vi)