Spanish Word of the Week: By Chance

This week’s word is acaso ah-kah’-soh (adverb) which menas by chance, maybe, perhaps. It is a word that I have used often espeically lately.

Examples
1: Mientras estuviste en la oficina, ¿acaso viste mis llaves? Las perdí por algún lado.

By any chance did you see my keys while you were in the office? I lost them somewhere.

2: Acaso este año vaya a esquiar durante las Navidades.

Maybe this year I’ll go skiing during my Christmas vacation.

This is also an idiom:

1:por si acaso   just in case