I assumed they meant thanks but a Google search doesn’t give me that kind of result. What does dinata mean and what language is it from?

  • @BillSchofield
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    1859 months ago

    de nada

    Spanish phrase

    de na·​da dā-ˈnä-t͟hä

    : of nothing : you’re welcome

      • Lvxferre
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        349 months ago

        Dunno how native speakers would do it, but usually I answer “bitte” for “danke”, “bitte schön” for “danke schön”.

        Fun fact: saying “bitte” near my cat prompts her to rub her face on your leg. All the time. I speak in German with her, and when she obeys my commands I tell her “bitte” and pet her, so now she associated the word with being petted.

        • @[email protected]
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          159 months ago

          Another fun fact: if you want to say “bitte schön” in Austrian German casual, you can just say “bitchin’.”

        • @RizzRustbolt
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          119 months ago

          If they “danke schön” me, I’ll usually respond with “darlin’”.

      • @CiderApplenTea
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        69 months ago

        I would translate it more closely to ‘keine Mühe’/‘keine Ursache’

        • amio
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          39 months ago

          Do you happen to know why it’s “keine Ursache”? That is a thing in Danish and Norwegian too (“ingen årsak”) and I always thought it was a weird phrase.

          • exscape
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            79 months ago

            Swedish too. I’ve always assumed the implicit meaning is roughly “there is [no reason] to thank me”.

            • amio
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              29 months ago

              That makes sense. For some reason, I thought it was something like “no reason to do what I did”. So basically “Sure, totally no ulterior motives here, by the way!”, which seemed kinda weird to me.

    • teft
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      299 months ago

      I prefer the Colombian way of saying thanks.

      “Con gusto”

      It means “With pleasure”.

    • Lupec
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      59 months ago

      Just as an additional tidbit, it’s the same in Portuguese as well!

      • Lvxferre
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        9 months ago

        [Additional tidbit]

        Pronunciation-wise it’s typically different, although in a weird way - both languages allow some variation depending on the speaker’s variety, but they don’t coincide. For example in Portuguese you could get [dɨˑ’näðɐ̥ˑ], [de’nädɐ], [dʒi’nadɐ̥ˑ], depending on where the speaker is from, but AFAIK you won’t find Spanish-like [ð] without a completely “un-Spanish-like” vowel reduction. In the meantime I kind of expect some Caribbean Spanish speakers to render the expression as [de’nää] de na’a.

        • Lupec
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          19 months ago

          Very good point, in hindsight I should probably have clarified I was focusing on the written form when I replied