Finalmente chegamos.

Finally, we arrived.

Breakdown of Finalmente chegamos.

• chegar: to arrive
• finalmente: finally

Questions & Answers about Finalmente chegamos.

Why is there no word for we in Finalmente chegamos?

Portuguese often drops subject pronouns when the verb ending already shows who the subject is.

In chegamos, the ending -amos tells you the subject is we (nós). So:

• Finalmente chegamos. = We finally arrived.
• Finalmente nós chegamos. = also possible, but nós is usually unnecessary unless you want emphasis or contrast.

This is very common in Brazilian Portuguese.

What tense is chegamos here?

Here, chegamos is most naturally understood as the preterite: we arrived.

So in this sentence:

• Finalmente chegamos. = We finally arrived.

A very important detail: for -ar verbs, the nós form in the present and the preterite is often the same in spelling:

• chegamos = we arrive
• chegamos = we arrived

Context tells you which one it is. With finalmente, the past meaning is the most likely one.

What is the infinitive of chegamos?