por ahí
Spanish edit
Adverb edit
- 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)
Derived terms edit
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “por ahí”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014