Finally or in the end? Discover the difference between End or End

At last or at last: which of the two ways is correct? The correct answer is that both are correct! Although they are similar and cause doubts in many people, the two hypotheses are used in Portuguese. Each of them has its own meaning and use.

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At last or at last - Discover the difference?

Understand a little more about each case:

Anyway

"You finally arrived!" The word is usually used in this sense, as a synonym for finally. It gives the feeling that something “at last” has happened. Something, “at last”, happened.

It is classified in Portuguese as an adverb of time and can express something that is completed or will be completed soon. It can also give the idea of ​​synthesis, of finalizing an idea.

Follow the examples below for the use of the word:

• Anyway, you didn't understand anything that was said.
• She is finally returning from her trip.
• We're finally going to the movies!
• Anyway, I was approved!
• At last we finished the job!

In the end

Some think that "in the end" is actually the correct way to spell "in the end". On the other hand, there are those who think that it is the wrong way to “at last”. It turns out that "in the end" has no connection with the similar word. Although the pronunciations are confusing, this is an expression with another meaning.

“In the end” is an adverbial phrase of time. It is the result of the union between the preposition “in” plus the noun “end”. Each of the two words has its own meaning when used separately, but form a phrase when put together.

The union between the two words expresses something that is at the end, unfinished, ending. Check out some examples of your job in the following sentences:

• He's at the end of his career.
• You are already at the end of the year.
• At the end of my speech, I say goodbye here.
• His state is terminal, it's already at the end of its life, unfortunately.
• She came into the end of her pregnancy, she needs special care.

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