Arrive Home or Arrive at Home? Which Should You Use?
Should you use arrive home or arrive at home? In this article, we’ll learn more about these phrases, when you can use them, and what they both mean.
Arrive home vs arrive at home
Both arrive home and arrive at home are grammatically correct, you can use both! However, which you should use can depend upon the context. Arrive home is more frequently used in the English language.
Arrive home
To arrive home means to come to the end of your journey and arrive at the place where you live. This happens after you go home. When using the phrase “arrive home” the person is referring to either their home or a place that feels like home for that specific period of time.
The phrase ‘arrive home’ can be used in both questions or statements within sentences. For example:
I’m going to arrive home at about 8:00 pm tonight.
I’m traveling tonight, so I should arrive home early tomorrow morning.
I’ve still got work at the office, so I’m going to arrive home a lot later than expected.
What time will you arrive home?
Arrive at home
“Arrive at home” isn’t as commonly used as “arrive home”, but it is still grammatically correct.
The main difference is that there is the word ‘at’ (the preposition) that precedes the word ‘home’ (the noun). This alters the context of the phrase. So, arrive at home is usually used if you are referring to a home or house of someone or something else, which is not your residence.
Examples
Dave usually arrives at home around 6:00 pm.
We’re going to see James after the gym, what time do you think you will arrive at his home?
However, you can still use “arrive at home” for your own home. For example:
I normally arrive at home around 7:00 pm.
And we can also use arrive home for someone else. For example:
Dave usually arrives home around 6:00 pm.
Which should you use?
To keep things simple, when you’re referring to your home you can use ‘arrive home’. When referring to someone else returning home you can use ‘arrive at home’. Just be aware that the uses can be interchangeable.
