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The article examines the use of  estar  in Portuguese expressions of permanent location, which runs counter to normative grammar, according to which  ser  and  ficar  should appear in those cases. This use of  estar  is not mentioned in grammatical descriptions, either. Yet, it occurs in contemporary Portuguese (both Portugal and Brazil). The same goes for the Portuguese- and Spanish-lexified creoles, some of which use  tá / stá  ( &lt; estar ) ,  to express location. However, almost all rely on a single verb in these contexts. The research question was studied empirically in a corpus (N=1,037) based on Google searches with seven exact phrases including  estar ,  ser , and  ficar , subsequently complemented with an analysis of two other Portuguese corpora. The results show that  estar  appears in expressions of permanent location, both in Portugal (22,5%) and Brazil (17,5%). However, there is a statistically significant difference,  ficar  being more frequent in Brazil and  ser  in Portugal. Moreover, the higher frequency of  estar  in Portugal may indirectly explain the popularity of  ficar  in Brazil. In addition,  estar  appears in written nonfiction, pointing to expressions of the type  estar localizado  /  situado  as its possible origin, also taking into account that no instances of its use were found in older documents.

«A praia está perto»: Zum Gebrauch des Verbs estar in Ausdrücken der statischen Lage im Portugiesischen