asá

See also: Appendix:Variations of "asa"

Spanish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /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 9788483016282, 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.

Etymology 2

Verb

asá

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