Complete Definition of "eventually"

English

Adverb
en-adv|-

  1. in the end

#*2004, w: Chris Wallace (journalist)|Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
#*:It had taken nine years from the evening that w:Harry Truman|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.

Synonyms
at last
finally
yet

Translations

Afrikaans: uiteindelik, ten slotte
Chinese: ��, ��
Dutch: uiteindelijk, NOT: eventueel
Finnish: lopulta, viimeinkin
French: finalement, à la fin, NOT: éventuellement
German: schlie�lich, letztendlich, NOT eventuell
Indonesian: akhirnya, pada akhirnya
Interlingua: finalmente, al fin; NOT: eventualmente
Italian: alla fine, in fine
mid
Japanese: ���� (t�t�), �� (�����, kekkyoku), ��� (tsui-ni), ���� (��������, saishū-teki-ni), ��� (yatto)
Korean: 결국 [��] (gyeolguk)
Polish: w ko�cu
Portuguese: finalmente, enfim; NOT: eventualmente
Russian: в кон�е кон�ов /v koncé koncóv/
Spanish: al final, NOT: eventualmente
Swedish: så småningom, slutigen, till slut; NOT: eventuellt
Turkish: sonunda

Trivia
The following words are false friends, and do not mean "eventually"
Dutch: eventueel
German: eventuell
Italian: eventualmente
Polish: ewentualnie
Swedish: eventuellt

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