asá

See also: Appendix:Variations of "asa"

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈsa/ [aˈsa]

Etymology 1

Contrasted with así (“like this”).

Adverb

asá

1. (nonstandard, humorous) like that (in the second manner specified)
   • 2002, Antonio Pizza, Maurici Pla, Viena - Berlín: teoría, arte y arquitectura entre los siglos XIX y XX, Univ. Politèc. de Catalunya →ISBN, page 77

     No nos sentamos de tal modo porque un ebanista haya construido un sillón así o asá, sino que el ebanista construye tal sillón porque nosotros queremos sentarnos así o asá.

     We don't sit the way we do because a carpenter built a chair in this or that way; rather the carpenter builds such a chair because we want to sit in this or that way.

Derived terms

• así que asá (“whatever”)

Verb

asá

1. (Latin America) Informal second-person singular (voseo) affirmative imperative form of asar.