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UK [əˈraɪv] / US verb [intransitive]
Word forms "arrive":
present tense I/you/we/they arrive he/she/it arrives present participle arriving past tense arrived past participle arrived
Get it right: arrive:
The verb arrive is never used with the preposition to:
Wrong: He meets them at an inn before they arrive to the house.
Right: He meets them at an inn before they arrive at the house.  
Arrive can be used with at or in: ▪  you arrive at a building (such as an airport or restaurant) …the scene in which Robyn arrives at the factory for the first time ▪  you arrive in a geographical location (such as a city or country) A delegation of senior French ministers will arrive in London today. ▪  you can also use arrive at in a figurative way, meaning "to reach a particular goal or point in a process" Quite independently, we all arrived at the same conclusion. The court will arrive at a final decision next week.   Note that with the word home, no preposition is used:
Wrong: When they finally arrive at home, all they want to do is sleep.
Right: When they finally arrive home, all they want to do is sleep.
1) to reach a place, after having been somewhere else

What time does your plane arrive?

I finally arrived home at five in the morning.

arrive at/in:

Four police officers suddenly arrived at their house.

a) to reach a place after having been sent or ordered from somewhere else

A letter arrived for you this morning.

Our furniture arrived safely by truck yesterday.

b) if information arrives, it is published or heard somewhere

Reports are just arriving about the earthquake in Mexico.

c) to come to a place in order to live there permanently

Her parents arrived in America in 1926.

d) to join an organization or start a new job

She was just 21 when she arrived at the Daily Mail as a trainee reporter.

2) to happen, take place, or begin to exist

Society changed forever when television arrived.

3) if a baby arrives, it is born

Sally was four when her baby brother arrived.

4) informal to achieve an aim, especially after a lot of effort

Running their own business, they felt they had finally arrived.

Phrasal verbs:

English dictionary. 2014.

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