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English
Adverb
over there
- In that place; there (at some distance).
You see that house over there? That's where I used to live.
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Noveria:Shepard: I'm looking for an asari.
Dr. Palon: Asari? Well, there's Dr. Iallis over there.
Dr. Palon: There's also our guest, Lady Benezia. Captain Ventralis might know where she is.
- To that place; thither (at some distance).
Let's head over there.
- (US, colloquial, originally military) overseas to Europe (for military engagement), especially to the Western Front in France during World War I
Translations
in that place
- Arabic: هُنَاك (hunāk), هُنَالِك (hunālik)
- Egyptian Arabic: هناك بعيد (henāk beʕīd)
- Moroccan Arabic: لهيه (lhih)
- Aromanian: dindi, didindi, naparti, dinclo
- Belarusian: там (be) (tam), вунь та́м (vunʹ tám)
- Burmese: ဟိုမှာ (huihma), ဟိုနား (huina:)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: (在)那邊/(在)那边 (zh) ((zài) nàbiān)
- Classical Nahuatl: ōmpa
- Czech: tam (cs)
- Danish: derovre, derover
- Dutch: daar (nl)
- Esperanto: tie for
- Finnish: tuolla (fi)
- French: là-bas (fr), là (fr)
- Galician: acolá, aló (gl)
- Georgian: იქ (ik), იქით (ikit), მანდ (mand)
- German: dort (de), drüben (de), dort drüben
- Hebrew: שָׁם (he) (shám)
- Hindi: उधर (hi) (udhar), वहाँ (hi) (vahā̃)
- Hungarian: ott (hu), amott (hu), odaát (hu)
- Icelandic: þarna fyrir handan, yfrum
- Indonesian: sana (id)
- Italian: laggiù (it)
- Japanese: あそこに (ja) (asoko ni), あそこで (ja) (asoko de), あそこへ (ja) (asoko e)
- Korean: 저기 (ko) (jeogi), 저쪽 (ko) (jeojjok)
- Lao: ພຸ້ນ (phun)
- Latin: illic (la)
- Macedonian: о́нде (ónde), о́ндека (óndeka)
- Malay: di sana (ms)
- Mongolian: энэ хавьд (ene xavʹd)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: der borte
- Ojibwe: iwidi
- Polish: tam (pl)
- Portuguese: lá (pt), ali (pt)
- Romanian: dincolo (ro)
- Russian: там (ru) (tam), вон та́м (von tám)
- Scottish Gaelic: an siud, thall
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: онде
- Roman: onde (sh)
- Slovak: tamto, hentam
- Spanish: allá (es), allí (es)
- Swedish: där borta (sv)
- Tamil: please add this translation if you can
- Thai: ที่นั่น (tîi-nân), ตรงนั้น (dtrong-nán)
- Ukrainian: там (uk) (tam), он та́м (on tám)
- Urdu: ادھر (udhar), وہاں (vahā̃)
- Walloon: låvå (wa), ladrî (wa), drola (wa), avår la (wa)
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Etymology
Pseudo-anglicism, derived from over there.
Adverb
over there
- (colloquial) in the United States
1919, “Wilson i Metropolitan Opera House. En skildring från det märkliga ögonblicket.”, in Svenska Dagbladet, page 8:Efter att ha hört och läst all kritik […] kändes det ganska underligt, när han började med, att det första, han skulle tala om för dem over there, ”was that an overwhelming majority of the American people is for the League of Nations.”- After hearing and reading all the criticism , it felt rather strange, when he started out by saying that the first thing he would tell them over there, "was that an overwhelming majority of the American people are for the League of Nations."
1942, Marianne Zetterström, “Viola: Direkt från U.S.A.”, in Svenska Dagbladet, page 8:Du och alla andra jäntor här […] se ut som månlandskap i ansiktet mot den minst observerade over there, vad ni än gör med er.- You and all the other girls here look like lunar landscapes in your faces compared to the least observed over there, whatever you do with yourselves.
2017, “Torsten Ordéus”, in Upsala Nya Tidning, archived from the original on 28 December 2021:Tre gånger på 1960-talet skeppades inspelningsbussen, med Torsten vid ratten, över till USA, något som väckte stor uppmärksamhet, inte bara ”over there”.- The recording bus, with Torsten at the wheel, was shipped to the United States three times in the 1960s, which attracted a lot of attention, not just "over there".