German: Jein.
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Perhaps
"Let's circle back to this"
perhaps
"Could do."
"fine...whatever."
For some reason, I'm never successful at linking to specific times in YouTube videos (yes, I tried &t=35s), but try about 35 seconds into this:
“ostensibly”
My prof usually says "jain", which is "ja" and "nein" merged.
maybe....just maybe.
This always means no from my experience.
are you gonna answer the question?
maybe.
suuure, with this exact amount of "u"s
3 seems to be the golden rule for that kinda thing
Ahhh yeah naww
Kinda
Would "fuck you!" Fill in the void? I have a feeling that yes, Indeed it would.
Fuck you
Confirmed! LOL!
I do think it depends heavily on inflection.
It's got to have that friendly familiar drawn out "fuuuuuuck you" that connotes "yes, you're right", "I disagree", and "fuck you" simultaneously.
Well stated. Master Carlin would be proud of us.
Yeahnah
In the US it's common to say "Yeah no".
It's common to say it in Canada too, but it can either mean no, yes, or simply be a placeholder phrase.
It's the Schrödinger's Cat of utterances - you don't know which it is until the sentence is finished/you elucidate from the broader conversational context.
Also “No yeah”. The second one applies!
Yeahnah.
Sorta?
"maybe"
Maybe is more, "I don't know, but it is possible"
I think op is taking about a situation where a statement/question is partially true, but also partially untrue. Like "Do some things fall faster than other things because they're heavier?" The answer is "kinda but not really".
"In an atmosphere" is the proper response to that question because it isn't kinda true, it is entirely context dependent.
maybe
Nja in Norwegian. Nei + Ja.
Ní in spanish.
Jein in German.
Nór in Faroese.
Sure
"Doch" is more like a logical "not" (¬).
Example:
Alice: "Bob, you don't like apples. Bob: "Doch" (Bob likes apples)
I've always thought of doch as an affirmative where a negative was expected.
I don't think its about the expectation of a negative, but rather it specifically disagrees with a previous negative, saying it is in fact positive. Doesn't work with disagreement in general, only when the challenged statement was negative.
That's clearer, I agree.
I think a fitting substitute would be Jein/Jain, coming from combining Ja(Yes) with Nein(No). Although I feel it doesn't perfectly match the 'but' part, It feels close enough that it's the only thing I could think of.
When sticking to German I would rather suggest a slightly bored mumbeld "Jooaa..."
Jein is different.
Perhaps
Sort of.
Yeah, right.
Mal sehen