• bamboo@lemm.ee
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    8 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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      6 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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      8 days ago

      Reminds generally of Spanish and porque/por que

      Porque === because

      Por que === for what?

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        8 days ago

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