• solrize@lemmy.ml
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    6 days ago

    I looked, “Tudo bem?” is a greeting in Brazilian Portuguese, that translates to “everything good?”.

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      6 days ago

      In French, there is “ça va?”, which can be translated as “it goes?”. It is also a valid response to itself too, so the conversation flow might just be “ça va? ça va.”

      • UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        In German there is “moin”. And a conversation might go like: “Moin. Moin.” As far as I’m concerned this greeting has no meaning at all. It could be derived from “morgen” (EN: morning), but you can use it at any time. So it’s basically a noise you make to acknowledge someone’s existence at this point. With varying degrees of enthusiasm.

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        5 days ago

        Reminds generally of Spanish and porque/por que

        Porque === because

        Por que === for what?

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          5 days ago

          It’s similar in English, though native speakers probably never notice: it’s literally “be cause”.

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      *Portuguese. We also use it as informal greeting in Portugal, and I’m pretty sure it’s universal to all portuguese speaking countries.