Llegó la princesa.

Spanish word order is more flexible than English word order.

Both Llegó la princesa and La princesa llegó are correct, but they can sound slightly different in emphasis:

• Llegó la princesa puts the arrival more in focus, almost like The princess has arrived or Here comes / arrived the princess in a narrative sense.
• La princesa llegó is more neutral and straightforward: The princess arrived.

In Spanish, it is very common for the subject to come after the verb, especially with verbs of movement or appearance like llegar, venir, aparecer, etc.

Llegó is the preterite tense, third person singular, from llegar.

So it means:

• he/she arrived
• it arrived
• or, in this sentence, the princess arrived

The preterite is used for a completed action in the past.

The accent mark is very important here.

• llegó = he/she/it arrived (preterite)
• llego = I arrive (present), though in correct spelling this form is actually llego without an accent

So the accent helps show both:

1. the correct stress: lle-GÓ
2. the meaning/verb form

Without the accent, it would be a different form of the verb.

The infinitive is llegar, which means to arrive or sometimes to come depending on context.

Its preterite forms are:

• yo llegué
• tú llegaste
• él/ella/usted llegó
• nosotros llegamos
• vosotros llegasteis
• ellos/ellas/ustedes llegaron

So llegó is the él/ella/usted form.

Llegar is mostly a regular -ar verb.

In the preterite, most forms are regular:

• llegaste
• llegó
• llegamos

But there is a spelling change in the yo form:

• llegué (not llegé)

This happens to keep the hard g sound before e. It is a spelling change, not really a major irregularity in meaning or structure.

In Spanish, articles like el, la, los, las are often used where English might or might not use the.

Here, la princesa means the princess.

You would normally need the article unless you are using princesa in a different structure, for example:

• Es princesa = She is a princess (in some contexts, though Es una princesa is more common in many situations)
• Princesa, ven aquí = Princess, come here (direct address)

But in Llegó la princesa, the article is needed because la princesa is the subject: the princess.

Yes, absolutely.

Both are correct:

• Llegó la princesa
• La princesa llegó

The difference is mainly one of focus and style:

• La princesa llegó = more neutral
• Llegó la princesa = more natural in some storytelling or dramatic contexts, where the arrival itself is being presented first

A native speaker might choose one or the other depending on what they want to highlight.

Usually, llegar most directly means to arrive.

So Llegó la princesa is most naturally The princess arrived.

However, depending on context, English may sometimes translate it more naturally as:

• The princess came
• The princess has arrived

Spanish and English do not always match word-for-word. The core idea is that the princess reached the place or showed up.

A simple learner-friendly pronunciation is:

ye-GOH la preen-THAY-sa

A few notes for Spain Spanish:

• ll is usually pronounced like y in yes for most speakers
• gó is stressed because of the accent mark
• z in princesa is pronounced like th in thin in most of Spain

So princesa sounds roughly like:

preen-THAY-sa

Depending on region, pronunciation can vary a bit, but that is a good Spain Spanish model.

Yes, if the subject is already understood from context.

Spanish often drops subject pronouns and even other repeated information when it is clear. So Llegó can mean:

• He arrived
• She arrived
• It arrived
• You arrived (formal usted)

But if you want to make clear that it was the princess, then you say Llegó la princesa.

That is also possible, but it is a different tense.

• Llegó la princesa = preterite; a completed past event
• Ha llegado la princesa = present perfect; the princess has arrived

In Spain, the present perfect is often used for recent past actions connected to the present, especially with time expressions like:

• hoy = today
• esta mañana = this morning
• esta semana = this week

So:

• Llegó la princesa ayer = The princess arrived yesterday
• Ha llegado la princesa = The princess has arrived

Both are correct; the choice depends on the time frame and how the speaker sees the action.

Yes. It is a complete, natural sentence.

It has:

• a verb: llegó
• a subject: la princesa

Even though the subject comes after the verb, it is still a full sentence. This kind of structure is very normal in Spanish.