Preposition Contractions 3

Word smooshing

Remember how you can smoosh short words together in Portuguese? The word de combines with aqui, and it turns into daqui.

Você é daqui?

Are you from here?

And the word a combines with onde becoming aonde.

Aonde ele vai?

Where is he going? (Literal: To where is he going?)

Here's more smooshing: the word de combines with ali to form dali.

Dali ela vai para casa.

From there she goes home.

So what?

Last smooshing example: the word aí combines with de. The combination daí by itself means from there.

O que você vê daí?

What do you see from there?

And the expression E daí? means So what?

E daí?

So what?