por aí
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Portuguese[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -i
- Hyphenation: por‧a‧í
Adverb[edit]
- 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.
- (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.