de acá para allá
Spanish
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /de aˌka ˌpaɾa aˈʝa/ [d̪e aˌka ˌpa.ɾa aˈʝa] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /de aˌka ˌpaɾa aˈʎa/ [d̪e aˌka ˌpa.ɾa aˈʎa] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /de aˌka ˌpaɾa aˈʃa/ [d̪e aˌka ˌpa.ɾa aˈʃa] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /de aˌka ˌpaɾa aˈʒa/ [d̪e aˌka ˌpa.ɾa aˈʒa] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Syllabification: de a‧cá pa‧ra a‧llá
Adverb
- (idiomatic) here and there; to and fro
Further reading
- “de acá para allá, o de acá para 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