hi (locatiu)

Vaig al mercat becomes hi vaig when the market is already known. Hi can refer to being in a place as well as movement toward it: visc a Girona becomes hi visc. It does not need to mean only the English word there.

A place expression can indicate presence, residence, direction or route. Hi can stand for suitable understood complements across these meanings: hi viu, hi va, hi passa. The English translation may be there, to it or through it, depending on the verb.

For a source introduced by de, en is the usual contrasting pronoun. Compare hi vaig with en vinc: I go there versus I come from there. Do not remove hi from haver-hi merely because a place phrase appears nearby; that hi belongs to the existential construction. A locative topic can be repeated deliberately, but a neutral short answer normally uses the pronoun without restating the same full location.