❌ Don’t say this: We arrived to the village at night (reached a place).
✅ Say this: We arrived at the village at night.
❌ “I arrived to the wedding late.”
✅ “I arrived at the wedding late — they had already thrown the bouquet, and it hit me in the face.”
Why “to” is wrong and “at” is correct
The word arrived means “reached a place.” In English, you arrive at a specific location — never arrive to. Think of at as pointing to a precise spot (at the village, at the station, at the door). The preposition to is wrong here because to shows movement toward something without reaching it (go to, walk to, drive to). You can go to the village, but once you get there, you arrive at it.
Can i use “ARRIVE IN” INSTEAD OF “arrive AT”
Linguists will tell you: at is for a point, in is for an area. Big places = in (in London, in France). Small places = at (at the store, at the village). But English speakers break this rule all the time because grammar is more of a suggestion than a law.
Both are correct. Both mean the same thing 99% of the time.
Arrive at = you reached the village. You are there. You can see the first house. Congratulations.
Arrive in = you reached the village and now you are inside its borders. Probably complaining about the lack of coffee shops. First it says that it is a very BIG village. Second, you are aim at some place inside it.
