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# ola

«ola» in Mova's school dictionary: **Not an English word on its own** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

fragment or name — not a common English word

### meaning for a pupil

1) Not an English word on its own. It may be a piece of a longer word, as in "cola", "granola" or "Coca-Cola". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ola/#m1)

2) It may be a name, like the girl's name Ola, or the Spanish greeting "hola" (hello) written without the h. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ola/#m2)

3) "Ola" is also the name of a taxi company in India and of a brand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ola/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

You will not usually meet "ola" alone in lessons. If you see it in a word list, it probably came from splitting a word such as "cola" or "granola", or from a name. In Spanish, "hola" means "hello" (the h is silent), and "ola" means "wave" (of the sea).

### examples

- "Hola!" means "hello" in Spanish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ola/#x1)
- My friend Ola comes from Poland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ola/#x2)
- Granola ends with the letters "ola". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ola/#x3)
- The word "cola" ends in "ola". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ola/#x4)
- In Spanish, "ola" means a wave in the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ola/#x5)
- Ola waved to us from the other side of the playground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ola/#x6)

### note

Treat it as a fragment or a name, not an English word. If it begins a sentence or is a person's name, write it with a capital: Ola. The Spanish greeting is spelt "hola", with a silent h.

### In the corpora

- [If Ola has 2 sisters, there are 3 girls in the family: Ola and her 2 sisters.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/129-sisters-and-brothers/1/)
- [So Ola's brother has 3 sisters, one more than Ola has.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/129-sisters-and-brothers/2/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ola» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ola/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.