in the end

in the end

English

Prepositional phrase

in the end

1. Eventually, finally.
   • 2011 October 1, Phil Dawkes, “Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport‎:

     Both sides will be disappointed not to have claimed their second win of the season, but in the end each had reasons to be grateful for the point.

   • 2012 June 29, Kevin Mitchell, “Roger Federer back from Wimbledon 2012 brink to beat Julien Benneteau”, in The Guardian‎, archived from the original on 15 November 2016:

     Where the Czech upstart [Lukáš] Rosol, ranked 100 in the world, all but blew [Rafael] Nadal's head off with his blunderbuss in a fifth set of unrivalled intensity on Thursday night, [Julien] Benneteau, a more artful citizen, used a rapier to hurt his vaunted foe before falling just short of a kill. In the end, it was he who staggered from the scene of the fight.

2. After a thorough examination of the situation

Synonyms

• (eventually, finally): at last, in conclusion, in fine; see also Thesaurus:finally
• (After thorough examination of the situation): all things considered, deep down, ultimately; see also Thesaurus:fundamentally

Translations

eventually, finally

Chinese: Mandarin: 終於 (zh), 终于 (zh) (zhōngyú), 最終 (zh), 最终 (zh) (zuìzhōng) Czech: nakonec (cs) Finnish: lopulta (fi), loppujen lopuksi (fi) French: en fin de compte (fr) Galician: á fin German: schließlich (de), letztendlich (de), zuallerletzt (de), zu guter Letzt (de) Greek: τελικά (el) (teliká) Hungarian: végül (hu) Indonesian: akhirnya (id) Japanese: 結局 (ja) (けっきょく, kekkyoku) Kazakh: ең соңында (eñ soñynda) Korean: 결국 (ko) (gyeolguk) Malayalam: ഒടുവിൽ (ml) (oṭuvil) Norwegian: Bokmål: til slutt Nynorsk: til slutt Old Norse: um síðir Persian: در نهایت‎ (dar nahâyat) Polish: w końcu (pl), w ostatecznym rozrachunku, koniec końców (pl) Portuguese: no fim Romanian: la urmă de tot Russian: в конце́ концо́в (ru) (v koncé koncóv) Scottish Gaelic: aig a' cheann thall Spanish: al fin, finalmente (es), al cabo, a la postre (es) Swedish: till slut (sv)