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/fin/
Translation
end, purpose
Word origin
From Latin finis ('boundary, limit, end').
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- finis
- English cognates
- finish, final, finite
Grammar
Examples
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You finally arrived, I had been waiting an hour.
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At the weekend we are going to the beach.
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With the aim of improving, you have to practise every day.
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I have finally finished the report I had been writing for weeks.
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The end is not always worth the means, she says.
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