Portuguese word

estar

say es-TAR (often ish-TAH)

to be (state, location)

How to remember it

Floating on a STAR-shaped float, Pixa is in the pool and is totally relaxed: to be somewhere, feeling something.

estar sounds like star.

Example

Eu estou no hotel.

I am at the hotel.

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