here's, there's, here you are, here you go, there you are, there you go (said when handing something over to someone) · yes? (said when someone is addressing you, to whom you owe respect) · yes?, go ahead (said when asking someone to do something or say something)
köken: The interjection sense comes from the verb form of ορίζω (orízo, “to decide; to arrive”) (see below), literally "set out!" or "define!".
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).
don't mention it, forget it, no problem, not at all (said in response to an expression of gratitude)
köken: nincs (“there is no”) + mi (“what”, here: anything, nothing) + -t (accusative suffix). Ellipsis of nincs mit megköszönni (literally “there is nothing to thank for”).
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.
Literally, “do so well”. Gjörðu is the imperative form of the archaic verb gjöra (“to do”). Gjöra is not used in modern Icelandic; instead it uses gera (“to do”). The phrase gerðu svo vel can also be used but it is not as common, there it is derived from the modern verb gera (“to do”).