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?

    • Lvxferre
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      348 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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        158 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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        118 months ago

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

    • @CiderApplenTea
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      68 months ago

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

      • amio
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        38 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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          78 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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            28 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.