No. 1,048 in Portuguese
lá
"lá" means "there."
In a sentence
Eu estive lá ontem para visitar um amigo.
I was there yesterday to visit a friend.
In this sentence, 'lá' is used to indicate a distant location where the speaker was yesterday.
Lá está o livro que você estava procurando.
There is the book you were looking for.
'Lá' is used here to point out the location of an object, meaning 'there' as the position of the book.
Ele sempre fala de lá como se fosse um lugar mágico.
He always talks about there as if it were a magical place.
In this sentence, 'lá' is used to refer to a specific remembered or imagined location the speaker talks about.
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