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there you are

there you are

113 3.5
Say this when you find what you are looking for or when something becomes clear
  • idiom
translation icon : ahí está
  • Oh, there you are, I was looking for you everywhere!
  • Oh, there you are
  • Ah, there you are
  • So, there you are

When they walk into a room, they go there you are and they focus on you.

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Examples

  • And I turn around and there you are looking at me from outside my cage.

  • And there you are, standing right before me.

  • And then when I knew I was getting better, I was like, oh, there you are, Peter.

    The TryPod

  • Well now, there you are, here I am, and ah, where are we?

    Lost Horizon (1973)

  • - Ah, there you are.

    Come Play with Me (1977)

  • - There you are, here.

    Enter Nowhere (2015)

  • "Ah, there you are," he said before I could even get a word out.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • "Oh, Sabrina, there you are!" called a voice from the back door.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • I've just been wandering around feeling like I wanted to die, and I look up and there you are.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • "Mom, there you are, I've been looking all over for you," Catherine said, rushing up to Meredith.

    Fiction book (1996)

Synonyms

there you go
vsthere you are
  • Informal
426 4.9

Say this to show you have given something or finished a task

is mainly for finding people or explaining solutions rather than casual praise
there you have it
vsthere you are
35 6.1

That shows the work is finished or the result is ready

is used when locating someone or resolving an issue rather than concluding
voilà
vsthere you are
1 8.6

Said when you show something that just appears or is ready

is the common English phrase used when finding or explaining things

Surface Forms

there you are main

Morphology

there + you + be

The phrase is essentially a reordering of 'you are there' and literally indicates that someone or something is present or has been found, so its meaning is directly derivable from 'there' + 'you' + 'are'. This locative/discovery use is cross-linguistically common and follows normal English composition, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will understand it.

Etymology

There you are comes from the moment you finally find someone or something, when you point and say there to you to show the discovery. That's why it now means 'I found you' or 'that's solved'.