adverbial N2 common politewritten
漸く — finally (at long last)
漸く ・ ようやく
Meaning
- finally / at long last — after considerable time or effort; the formal counterpart of やっと
Key sentence
工事が漸く終了した。
The construction has finally been completed.
Usage
Formal and writing-leaning (reports, news, narration). In everyday speech やっと is more natural.
Examples
長年の研究が漸く実を結んだ。
Years of research have finally borne fruit.
漸く春の気配が感じられる。
At last there are signs of spring.
Easily confused with
See 漸く in real sentences
Jengo shows 漸く the way you actually meet it: inside real Japanese sentences, so it sticks instead of staying an abstract rule.
Study it in JengoSources Compiled with reference to A Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar.