aquò

Level 1

Aquò means that, for a thing or an idea.

How It Works

Aquò means "that". It points to something you see or to an idea you just heard. It has no gender and no plural.

It usually comes before es: Aquò es un libre. (That is a book.) Aquò es bon. (That is good.) After aquò an adjective stays in its masculine singular form.

To ask what something is, ask Qu'es aquò?

Do not put aquò in front of a noun. For "that book" you need aquel libre, and for "this book" aqueste libre; you will meet both later. Aquò stands alone.

Examples (4)

  1. Aquò es un libre.

    That is a book.

    Aquò points at the thing.

  2. Qu'es aquò?

    What is that?

    The usual question for an unknown thing.

  3. Aquò es bon.

    That is good.

    Bon stays masculine after aquò.

  4. Aquò es per Maria.

    That is for Maria.

    Aquò begins the sentence like English that.

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Aquò starts most simple sentences with es, so the present of èsser comes first.

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