this place here / this thing/person

emphasizes the very thing or person here / forms a question expressing uncertainty or doubt / Sentence-final particle used to point out a place or an event the speaker wants to stress. The place or event can be seen at the moment of speaking. / sentence-final particle used to refer to the speaker's idea or feeling of existence or presence of something without certain proof

ago

(formal or literary) now, at present

nearby / recently

before; formerly; in the past / ago

recently; lately; not long ago