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Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -i
- Hyphenation: por‧a‧í
Adverb
por aí
- out there, over there, that way
Não vás por aí. É perigoso.- Don't go over there. It is dangerous.
- around (in a place different than where the speaker currently is; otherwise, use por aqui.)
Não, tenho a certeza de que o teria visto se estivesse por aí.- No, I'm sure I would have seen him if he had been around.
1905, Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho, “A perceptora [The perceptress]”, in Contos e phantasias [Short stories and fantasies], 2nd edition, Lisbon: Parceria Antonio Maria Pereira, page 207:Conhecia as linguas modernas, mas não como as conhecem as meninas que por ahi conversam com os diplomatas, resumindo n’isso todas as suas ambições de estudo.- She knew the modern languages, but not like the girls who chat around with diplomats, and have that as their only learning ambition, know them.
- (idiomatic) roughly, thereabout, thereabouts (i.e. approximately)
A velocidade da luz é de 300.000 quilómetros por segundo, certo? Sim, por aí.- The speed of light is 300,000 kilometres per second, right? Yes, thereabout.