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What does "¿qué xopa?" mean?

What's up? — the Panamanian greeting.

Country
🇵🇦 Panama
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keh SHOH-pah
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Friends & informal

How it's actually used

The standard casual greeting among younger Panamanians, usually answered with "offi" or "todo bien."

Examples

Where it comes from

Reversed-syllable slang: "pasó" flipped into "xopa." Panama has a whole tradition of inverting words this way.

What other countries say

Cuba says ¿qué bolá?, DR says klk, Mexico says ¿qué onda?, Colombia says ¿qué más?

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Reading a definition isn't the same as saying it to someone. Lingo Kaiava is a voice tutor set to Panamanian Spanish — it uses ¿qué xopa? the way locals do, corrects you in the moment, and never "fixes" the way real people actually talk into textbook Panamanian Spanish.

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