El envío llegó hoy.

Llegó is the preterite form of llegar, so it means arrived and refers to a completed action in the past.

• llega = arrives / is arriving
• llegó = arrived

Since the sentence says the shipment arrived today, Spanish uses llegó to show that the arrival already happened.

It is the third person singular preterite of llegar.

That means it matches a singular subject such as:

• el envío
• el paquete
• el tren

So:

• El envío llegó hoy = The shipment arrived today

The preterite is very commonly used in Spanish to talk about finished events.

The accent mark shows both pronunciation and verb form.

• llego without an accent means I arrive
• llegó with an accent means he/she/it arrived

So the accent is important because it changes the meaning.

It also shows that the stress falls on the last syllable: lle-GÓ.

In this sentence, envío is a noun, meaning something like shipment, dispatch, or delivery depending on context.

The accent helps show the stress: en-VÍ-o.

It also helps distinguish it from some verb forms:

• envío = shipment or I send depending on context
• here, because of el, it is clearly the noun

So el envío means the shipment.

El is the definite article, meaning the.

Spanish often uses an article where English also uses one:

• el envío = the shipment

Without el, the sentence would sound incomplete or unnatural in this context unless you were speaking in a very special style, like a headline or note.

Yes. That is also correct.

• El envío llegó hoy
• El envío ha llegado hoy

In Spain, both can be natural, but there is often a preference for the present perfect (ha llegado) when talking about something that happened today, because today is often viewed as part of the current time period.

Still, llegó hoy is absolutely understandable and natural. In many Spanish-speaking areas outside Spain, the preterite is even more common here.

They are related, but not identical.

• envío = the shipment / dispatch process or the item being sent in a shipping context
• paquete = package / parcel, the physical box or parcel
• entrega = delivery, especially the act of delivering

So this sentence focuses on the shipment arriving. In everyday speech, people might also say:

• El paquete llegó hoy = the package arrived today
• La entrega llegó hoy is less common; more natural would often be La entrega fue hoy or Lo entregaron hoy, depending on meaning

In most of Spain today, ll is pronounced the same as y. This is called yeísmo.

So llegó sounds roughly like ye-GO.

A broad approximation for Spain Spanish pronunciation would be:

• El envío llegó hoy
• el em-BEE-o ye-GO oy

A few extra pronunciation notes:

• h in hoy is silent
• g in llegó is a hard g because it comes before o
• the stress is on -ví- in envío and -gó in llegó

Yes. Spanish word order is flexible.

The most neutral order here is:

• El envío llegó hoy

But you could also say:

• Hoy llegó el envío
• Llegó hoy el envío

These alternatives can sound more emphatic or stylistically different depending on context.

For example:

• Hoy llegó el envío puts more focus on today
• El envío llegó hoy is the most straightforward everyday version

Spanish usually does not need an extra helping verb like did for simple past statements.

English:

• The shipment arrived today

Spanish:

• El envío llegó hoy

The verb form itself already contains the past meaning, so no extra word is needed.

Very often, yes.

Spanish uses llegar not only for people but also for things that arrive:

• El tren llegó
• La carta llegó
• El paquete llegó
• El envío llegó

So using llegar with envío is completely natural.

Yes, it is natural and correct.

It sounds like something you might read in a delivery update, a message, or a simple spoken statement. In everyday conversation, a Spaniard might also say:

• Ha llegado hoy el envío
• El paquete ha llegado hoy
• Tu envío llegó hoy

But El envío llegó hoy is perfectly normal Spanish.