たどり着く【たどりつく】
Frequency rank: 2,310. – 2,311. (for form 辿り着く: 2,142.)
- to arrive at (after a struggle); to finally reach; to find one's way to; to finally hit on (e.g. an idea)
Godan verb with 'ku' ending; intransitive verb
Forms
- たどり着く【たどりつく】Frequency rank: 2,310. – 2,311.
- 辿り着く【たどりつく】Frequency rank: 2,142.
- 辿りつく【たどりつく】Frequency rank: 5,694. – 5,701.
- たどりつくFrequency rank: 23,730. – 23,859.
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Bearing in mind the durability in washing and various factors this is what we arrived at:
I arrived home, thoroughly worn out, after getting lost in the mountain paths.
Late in the evening we found our way to the foot of the mountain at last.
Though seriously injured, he managed to get to a telephone.
Who first reached the summit of Mt. Everest?
Again the younger brother became a wanderer, and he arrived one day at the house of the elder brother.
Dark as it was, we managed to find our way home.
Dark as it was, we managed to find our way back to our tent.
This is how Scott and his men arrived at the South Pole.
16. わたしたち私たちのまえに前には、ながい長いみちのり道のりがまちうけています待ち受けています。めのまえ目の前のしゃめん斜面はきゅう急です。めざす目指すところに、いちねん1年ではたどりつかないかもしれない。だいとうりょう大統領としていち1き期をまるごと丸ごとつかって使ってもむり無理かもしれない。しかしあめりかアメリカよ、わたしたち私たちはぜったいに絶対にたどりつきますたどり着きます。こんや今夜ほどそのきたい期待をつよく強くしたことはありません。
The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term. But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we WILL get there.
I promise you, we as a people will get there.
We hope to reach the summit before it gets dark.