Is it correct if I use the expression "there you go" in the situation below?
“Excuse me, do you know where the Empire State Building is?”
“There you go. It's right over there!” or only “There you go.” (=That is the Empire State Building)
Someone asks me for direction in the street (imagine s/he is looking for a building in NYC) and I am showing the building s/he was looking for and the building is a few blocks away, I want to point at the building and start my answer with the expression "there you go"
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You could use it at the end of it all though otherwise it's not correct. You either say "There you go" when someone/something does something correctly or when giving something.
"So you take a right over there, cross the street and there you go!"
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It's not wrong but you use "there you go" more naturally when someone asks you for something, that you pass to them and reply "there you go"
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Thank you
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There you go is an expression. It's not typically used for directions. It can be used for a couple scenarios. First, to signify someone has understood and expressed what you were trying to convey. For example, "Brad takes joy when my team loses." And then someone replies, "He's a schadenfreude?", and thus you can reply "there you go!". Typically one will forget something verbally and when someone reminds them or conveys the meaning of a statement well you can use, "there you go!". It's kind of a kudos.
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