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German
Etymology
From dort + hin.
Pronunciation
Adverb
dorthin
- there (to that place)
1918, Elisabeth von Heyking, “Aus dem Lande der Ostseeritter”, in Zwei Erzählungen, Phillipp Reclam jun., page 79:Aber oftmals lief die kleine Dorothee […] noch viel weiter, bis dorthin, wo der regelmäßige Garten sich in einen weiten natürlichen Park verlor […]- But often the little Dorothee walked still much farther until there, where the regular garden faded away into a wide natural park
See also
Further reading
- “dorthin” in Duden online
- “dorthin” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache