acá y allá
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aˌka i aˈʝa/ [aˌka i aˈʝa] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /aˌka i aˈʎa/ [aˌka i aˈʎa] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /aˌka i aˈʃa/ [aˌka i aˈʃa] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /aˌka i aˈʒa/ [aˌka i aˈʒa] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Syllabification: a‧cá y a‧llá
Adverb
- (idiomatic) here and there; to and fro; hither and thither
Further reading
- “acá y allá, o acá y acullá”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025