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辿り着く (たどりつく, tadoritsuku) Japanese meaning | Kotomora
Common word› JLPT N1 › Freq. Frequency Top 20,000 Conjugation 辿り着く · godan verb (-ku)
Form Positive Negative Dictionary 辿たど り 着つ く 辿たど り 着つ かない Polite 辿たど り 着つ きます 辿たど り 着つ きません Past polite 辿たど り 着つ きました 辿たど り 着つ きませんでした Past 辿たど り 着つ いた 辿たど り 着つ かなかった Te-form 辿たど り 着つ いて 辿たど り 着つ かないで Desire 辿たど り 着つ きたい 辿たど り 着つ きたくない Potential 辿たど り 着つ ける 辿たど り 着つ けない Passive 辿たど り 着つ かれる 辿たど り 着つ かれない Causative 辿たど り 着つ かせる 辿たど り 着つ かせない Causative passive 辿たど り 着つ かせられる also 辿たど り 着つ かされる 辿たど り 着つ かせられない also 辿たど り 着つ かされない Volitional 辿たど り 着つ こう Polite volitional 辿たど り 着つ きましょう Imperative 辿たど り 着つ け 辿たど り 着つ くな Conditional 辿たど り 着つ けば 辿たど り 着つ かなければ Tara conditional 辿たど り 着つ いたら 辿たど り 着つ かなかったら
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We finally arrived at the mountain hut late at night.
I made calculation errors many times, but I finally arrived at the correct answer.
Usage patterns 〈 場ば 所しょ 〉 にたどり 着つ く to finally reach a place after a difficult journey
After walking mountain trails for hours, we finally reached the summit.
〈 事こと 〉 にたどり 着つ く to finally arrive at a conclusion or answer after much effort
After discussing it many times, we finally arrived at a conclusion.
〈 事こと 〉 の 末すえ にたどり 着つ く to finally arrive after a long ordeal or process
After a long journey, we finally reached our destination.
Related words 着く simply means 'to arrive' with no implication of difficulty, while 辿り着く emphasizes the effort or hardship of the journey that led to arriving.
到着する is a formal, neutral word for arrival used in schedules and announcements, whereas 辿り着く is colloquial and highlights the struggle of getting there.
到達する is a formal term for reaching a point or level (often abstract, like a goal or standard), while 辿り着く keeps a stronger sense of hard-won physical or figurative struggle.
行き着く means to eventually end up somewhere or at some result, often with a neutral or slightly negative nuance, while 辿り着く stresses the effortful process of finally arriving.
Written forms 辿たど り 着つ く Usage 19%
Standard kanji spelling; the most common written form.
たどり 着つ く Usage 46%
Common variant with the first part in kana; often used when the kanji 辿 is considered difficult or less familiar.
たどりつく Usage 29%
辿たど りつく Usage 7%
Etymology Compound of 辿る (tadoru, 'to follow, to trace') + 着く (tsuku, 'to arrive'). The verb 辿る implies following a path or clues, often with difficulty, which contributes to the nuance of a hard-won arrival.
Search-only form; not a standard spelling but may appear in informal writing or as a typing variant.
