please, if you please (used to make a polite request or affirm an offer)
çekim: çoğul Bitten · tamlayan Bitten
eş: Anliegen, Aufforderung, Flehen, Nachsuchen, Wunsch, Ersuchen
köken: Ellipsis of ich bitte (dich/Sie) (“I beg (you)”).
At your service
eş: pour vous servir, merci
don't mention it · forget it (as if I had not said) · as you were
not at all · originally
köken: Borrowed from Arabic أَصْلًا (ʔaṣlan).
🔊 ز ان نشان با والد یحیی بگفت، که نیایی تا سه روز اصلا به گفت.
you're welcome, don't mention it
köken: From third-person singular future uncertain indicative negative of dəymək (“to be worth of”). Literally, "It's not worth it".
not worth it
köken: From арзу (arzu, “to worth”) + -ма (-ma) + -й (-i) + -ды (-dy). Literally, “doesn't worth it”.
mercy, kindness, benevolence
çekim: çoğul marhamatlar · tamlayan marhamatning
köken: Borrowed from Arabic مَرْحَمَة (marḥama).
aile: marhamatli, marhamatsiz, marhamatsizlik
don't mention it, de nada (formulaic reply to an expression of thanks, stating that it is not necessary to offer thanks)
köken: Literally, “no thanks”.
it's nothing, think nothing of it, you're welcome, don't mention it
eş: fraco, fracote
at all, a little · by no means
köken: Inherited from Byzantine Greek καθόλου (kathólou) from Ancient Greek καθ’ (kath’) + ὅλου (hólou) "on the whole, generally", genitive of ὅλος (hólos, “whole, all”).
🔊 Δεν έχω καθόλου λεφτά.
🔊 Δεν είναι καθόλου αστείο!
🔊 Έχεις καθόλου λεφτά; Δεν έχω καθόλου.
yes (in response to negative questions), disagree · Response to words of gratitude.
eş: ううん
zıt: はい, うん
köken: /ina/ → /ija/ → /ije/ → /iːe/ First cited to the late 1600s. Shift from いや (iya), from even earlier 否 (ina). While いや (iya) was broadly used in the Muromachi period, in the Edo period, いや (iya) shifted to use mainly in informal or more intimate contexts, while いいえ (īe) was used in more formal or polite contexts. いや (iya) is still in use, including broader senses not included for いいえ (īe).
🔊 「東京出身ですか。」「いいえ、大阪出身です。」
🔊 今日は雨だから、ピクニックには行けませんね？いいえ、雨ガッパを着れば行けます。
🔊 「ありがとうございます。」「いいえ、どういたしまして。」
at all
köken: From 결(決) (gyeol, “decision”, Sino-Korean morpheme) + -코 (-ko, adverb-deriving suffix).
it's nothing (response to a “thank you”)
köken: Literally, “no cause”. Similar to Faroese eingin orsøk, Norwegian Nynorsk inga årsak, Norwegian Bokmål ingen årsak and Danish ingen årsag.
the pleasure is all mine
eş: CPPMS
köken: Literally, “all of the pleasure is on my side”.
no problem; it’s no big deal
köken: Compare Punjabi ਕੋਈ ਗੱਲ ਨਹੀਂ (koī galla nahī̃) / کوئِی گَلّ نَہِیں (ko'ī gall nahīṉ).
not at all
🔊 Pelkäsitkö? — En lainkaan!
🔊 Sattuiko? — Ei lainkaan!
not at all, don't mention it
eş: za nic, rádo se stalo, prosím, to nestojí za řeč, za málo, bylo
you're welcome, with pleasure
first-person singular indicative present definite of kér · please · no problem, you are welcome (as a response to “Thank you!”)
köken: kér + -em
🔊 Ezt nem kérem.
🔊 Kérem, fáradjon be!
ready, willing, eager · with pleasure, with good will · glad, cheerful, merry
çekim: karşılaştırma libentior · üstünlük libentissimus
zıt: invītus, trīstis, infelix, maestus, miser, aeger
köken: Present participle of libet (“it is pleasing”).
🔊 AESCULAPIO ET⸱YGIAE DOMINIS P(VBLIVS)⸱AELIVS PHILETVS V(OTVM)⸱S(OLVIT)⸱L(AETVS)⸱L(IBENS)⸱M(ERITO)
you’re welcome · not at all · don’t mention it
köken: Literally, “that was so little” (also, "no big deal"). Similar to Swedish and Norwegian det var så lite, Icelandic það var lítið and Faroese tað var so lítið.
you're welcome, has a connotation of same to you
köken: Inherited from Malay sama-sama,reduplication of sama (“same”).
patty (a flattened, grilled or fried portion of ground or chopped meat, egg, or seafood) · Vietnamese pork sausage
köken: Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 鮓 (“minced and salted fish”, SV: trả).
aile: bún chả, bún chả cá, chả bì, chả bò, chả cá, chả chìa, chả chiên, chả cốm, chả cuốn, chả giò