Bolivian Spanish word
pues
Meaning: well / then
How it is used in Bolivia
A common filler that softens speech, often as “pue”.
Daniela tags many of her sentences with 'pues', a soft, warm marker of paceño speech ('tranquilo pues, hoy no corremos'), not a word with its own separate meaning.
'Ya pues', 'andá pues', 'pues' tacked on softens a sentence and warms it. It's a signature of highland chuquisaqueño, the gentler, more formal cousin of Santa Cruz's cruceño.
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