llegas

Llegas is the second-person singular present indicative form of the Spanish verb llegar, meaning you arrive or you are arriving. It is used when addressing someone informally (tú).

In usage, llegas denotes arrival at a place or at a specified time. Examples include "¿A qué hora llegas?" (What time do you arrive?) and "Llegas tarde" (You’re arriving late). It appears in everyday speech to indicate that the subject is reaching a destination or a point in time.

Morphology and related forms: Llegas is part of the regular -ar verb conjugation. The full present indicative paradigm for llegar is: yo llego, tú llegas, él llega, nosotros llegamos, vosotros llegáis, ellos llegan. The verb is common in compound phrases as well, such as "llegar a un acuerdo" (to reach an agreement) or "llegar tarde" (to arrive late). In other tenses, the root behaves like other -ar verbs: pretérito perfecto simple (pretérito) "llegué" (I arrived) with a spelling change to preserve the hard /g/ before e, imperfect "llegaba," future "llegaré," and so on.

Pronunciation and style: In standard Spanish, llegas is pronounced with the “ll” as a palatal sound, commonly realized as a 'y' sound in many dialects. The stress falls on the last syllable: lle-GAS.

Notes: Llegas appears as a routine form in everyday Spanish, and is the usual way to address someone directly about their arrival. It is one of the most frequently used forms of the verb llegar, central to conversations about location, timing, and plans.