finfine
Esperanto
Etymology
From fini (“to finish”) + fine (“finally”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /finˈfine/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ine
- Syllabification: fin‧fi‧ne
- Hyphenation: fin‧fine
Adverb
finfine
- (emphatic) at last, finally (after an exceptionally long time)
- 2025 November 27, Renée Triolle, “La unua eŭropano, kiu vizitis Tibeton Alexandra David-Néel (1868-1969)”, in uea.facila[1], archived from the original on 23 December 2025:
- Ŝi finfine edziniĝis en 1904 al la ĉefa inĝeniero de la tuniziaj fervojoj, Philippe Néel, kiam ŝi kantis ĉe la operejo de Tunizo.
- She finally got married in 1904 to the chief engineer of the Tunisian railways, Philippe Néel, when she sang at the opera house of Tunis.
Further reading
Monolingual dictionaries
- “finfine”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
- “finfine”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-present
Multilingual dictionaries
- Wells, John C. (1992), “last”, in Concise Esperanto and English Dictionary[2], →ISBN, page 293
- Benson, Peter J. (1995), “run, yet”, in Comprehensive English-Esperanto Dictionary[3], →ISBN, pages 442-444, 591-592
- Butler, Montagu C. (1967), “fin-i”, in Esperanto-English Dictionary[4], →OL, page 129