llegó

Llegó is the third-person singular form in the simple past tense (pretérito) of the Spanish verb llegar. It is used to indicate that someone or something arrived at a place or reached a destination, and it typically appears with a subject in the past tense.

Usage and meaning

The verb llegar covers physical arrival and the attainment of a result or goal. It is commonly used with adverbs of time or location, as in llegó temprano (he arrived early) or llegó a la estación (he arrived at the station). It also introduces expressions that describe reaching a conclusion, an agreement, or a threshold, such as llegó a la conclusión or llegó a un acuerdo. The form llega can be extended with pronouns (me llegó, te llegó, etc.) in other persons and tenses.

Forms and related words

Llegar is an -ar verb; its other forms include llego (present tense, yo) and llegas, llega, llegamos, llegan, among others. The noun llegada refers to an arrival or the act of arriving. The word belongs to the Romance family and is used across Spanish-speaking regions, though pronunciation of the initial ll may vary (two possible sounds: [ʎ] or [ʝ]) depending on dialect.

Examples

- Llegó a tiempo para la reunión.

- ¿Cuándo llegó el tren?

- Llegó a una conclusión tras revisar los datos.

Notes

Elided forms and usage may vary with regional dialects, but llegar in the pretérito indicates completed action of arriving, with the accent on the final syllable in llegó to mark stress.