Well… / so? / what can you do.
A verbal shrug. Opens sentences when there is nothing to add, expresses resignation, or asks "so what happened?" Deeply Costa Rican and hard to translate cleanly.
Contracted from "de ahí" (from there).
Reading a definition isn't the same as saying it to someone. Lingo Kaiava is a voice tutor set to Costa Rican Spanish — it uses diay the way locals do, corrects you in the moment, and never "fixes" the way real people actually talk into textbook Costa Rican Spanish.
Practice Costa Rican Spanish free →
Free to start. No signup for your first conversation.