# voilà
## English
### Alternative forms

* voila
* wallah (misspelling)
* whalah (misspelling)

### Etymology

Borrowed from French voilà.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /vwæˈlɑː/, /vwɑːˈlɑː/, /vwʌˈlɑː/
* (US) IPA: /(v)wɑˈlɑ/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Interjection

voilà
* Lo, there it is; see here; ta-da; presto; behold!

#### Synonyms

* See Thesaurus:lo

#### Translations
### References

* 1 2 Wells, John C. (2008) Longman Pronunciation Dictionary, 3rd edition, Longman, →ISBN

### Anagrams

* Ivalo, Viola, oliva, viola, volia

## French
### Etymology

Literally, “look there”. From vois (“see!, look!”), second-person singular imperative of voir (“to see, to look”) and là (“there”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vwa.la/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophones: voila, voilât

### Verb

voilà (defective)
* there (it) is
** 1953, Samuel Beckett, En attendant Godot:Voilà l’homme tout entier, s’en prenant à sa chaussure alors que c’est son pied le coupable.There is man in his entirety, blaming his shoe when his foot is guilty.
* here (it) is
    Voilà le fromage.Here's the cheese.
    Voilà ce qu’on va faire ensuite.Here's what we are going to do next.
* that is
    Voilà ce que je lui ai demandé, et voici sa réponse : « ... »That's what I asked her and this is her answer: "..."
* expresses something completed
    Voilà qui est fait.That's done/That's over with.
* expresses the unexpected or abrupt nature of an event
    Comme nous étions à la promenade, voilà qu’une ondée vint à tomber.As we were taking a walk, a huge rainshower suddenly began to fall.

#### Usage notes

* voilà is a defective verb. Its only conjugation is in the present indicative tense, even though it can appear in phrases that imply another tense.
* As a verb, it can take direct object pronouns:
    La voilà! ― There she is!
* It can also occur in relative clauses:
    l’homme que voilà ― the man who is there/that man (right) there
* It is mainly used to introduce a slightly distant person or object, in contrast to voici which is used to designate a person or object near the speaker.
* In face-to-face conversations where both participants can see the subject of the conversation, voilà often supersedes voici (thus its additional definition: Here is).

#### Derived terms

* en veux-tu en voilà
* et voilà le travail
* voilà qui est fait
* voilà tout

### See also

* revoilà
* voici

### Further reading

* “voilà”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* lovai, viola, volai

## Indonesian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French voilà (literally “look there”).

### Interjection

voilà
* voilà, there it is; see here; ta-da; presto; behold!
    Synonym: ini dia

### Further reading

* “voilà” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Italian
### Interjection

voilà
* voilà

### Anagrams

* Viola, oliva, ovali, viola, volai

## Polish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French voilà.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vwaˈla/
* Rhymes: -a
* Syllabification: voi‧là

### Interjection

voilà
* behold, voilà, woe!

### Further reading

* voilà in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Spanish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French voilà.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bwaˈla/ [bwaˈla]
* Rhymes: -a

### Interjection

voilà
* Alternative form of vualá

#### Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.