estou
Meaning
-
hello (a greeting used when answering the telephone)
Frequency
Hyphenated as
es‧tou
Pronounced as (IPA)
/isˈto(w)/
Etymology
In summary
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese estou, from Latin stō.
New
estar
- (intransitive) to be (indicates location in space)
- (copulative) to be (denotes a transient quality; a quality expected to change)
- (auxiliary) to be; forms the progressive aspect
- (intransitive) to cost (to be worth a certain amount of money), especially of something whose price changes often
- (copulative) to look, to appear (to give an appearance of being)
- to stand
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