Comment on Sometimes when I say danke (thanks or thank you) some of my friends will say (and the spelling is wrong but it's as close as I can get) they will say danata or maybe it's dinata.

• lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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  • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• CiderApplenTea@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oder “nichts zu danken”.

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  • amio@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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    • exscape@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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      • amio@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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