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What does "bene bene dai" mean?
When I ask my italian friend "Come staì" she often responds with "bene bene dai".
I asked her to explain what it means and she said she can't really, it's just a common phrase that she didn't know how to explain.
I know that bene means well and that dai is a phrase that can mean "come on!" but literally translated "well, well, come on" doesn't make any sense. Can someone please explain it to me a little?
8 de jan de 2019 02:37
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DAI!!!!
Questo DAI a volte è una parola vuota. Si usa in tantissimi modi:
andiamo dai! -> let's go, come on!
andiamo a bere un caffè dai! -> a proposal
Sto bene dai = in this case I would say that your friend is not 100% ok, otherwise she would simply say " BENE!"
I would translate it in : I am ok, despite everything.
As you might know, us italian are ALWAYS FINE ! it means that when they ask us how we are, we always answer BENE, and never MALE.
Buono studio dell'italiano!
Irene
8 de janeiro de 2019
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The punctuation
-- come va?
-- bene, bene, dài. > means, I'm still alive
*Dài is an equivalent of "come on" or "say" in spoken language, literally "Give it to me" so means "Let me say so".
It's also a fast automatic answer when someone obtains a refuse to an embarassing question, or begs for mercy.
(The accent is used by accultured speakers to distinguish it from "dai" which marks the locative clause.)
Curiously, Polish and Russians also use the same expression as "Come on":
--- Давай! Давай! -- have you ever heard that?
8 de janeiro de 2019
It's an idiom, we can't translate it into English.
8 de janeiro de 2019
That's great, Andrea! I guess "no complaints" or "can't complain" would be a pretty good translation, as that's a common expression for us too. That makes a lot of sense!
Grazie! :)
8 de janeiro de 2019
I don't think that way of using "dai" has a translation in English. Personally when I say it it's something similar to "nothing wrong happened" or "nothing to complain about" but again, it's very hard to translate.
8 de janeiro de 2019
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Inglês, Italiano
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