# Place adverbs: aquí, ahí, allí, acá, allá

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**Summary.** Three distances: aquí (here), ahí (there, near you), allí (over there). Latin America favors acá and allá, often with motion or vagueness.

Place adverbs locate things relative to the speaker, mirroring the demonstratives: aquí ('here', by me — like este), ahí ('there', by you or nearby — like ese), allí ('over there', far — like aquel). Acá and allá are looser, zone-like variants that dominate much of Latin America and pair naturally with movement: vení acá, se fue para allá.

Only acá/allá take degrees (más acá, más allá); aquí/allí don't. Ahí is the everyday middle distance and the most frequent of the set: ahí está, dejalo ahí.

Beyond the here/there set, the main place adverbs are cerca/lejos ('near/far'), arriba/abajo ('up/down'), adentro/dentro and afuera/fuera ('inside/outside'), adelante/atrás ('ahead/behind'), and enfrente ('opposite'). With motion verbs the a- forms are preferred: vamos adentro, corré para adelante.

## Examples
- El supermercado está aquí cerca. — The supermarket is near here.
- Vení acá un segundo. — Come here a second. *(acá: common in voseo regions.)*
- El baño está allí, al fondo, y la salida, aquí cerca. — The bathroom is over there, at the back, and the exit is near here.

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