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Spanish
Adverb
por ahí
- out there, over there, that way
No vayas por ahí. No sabes nada.- Don't even go there. You know nothing.
- around (in a place different than where the speaker currently is; otherwise, use por aquí.)
No, estoy seguro de que lo habría visto si hubiera estado por ahí.- No, I'm sure I would have seen him if he had been around.
- (idiomatic) roughly, thereabout, thereabouts (i.e. approximately)
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