I assumed they meant thanks but a Google search doesn’t give me that kind of result. What does dinata mean and what language is it from?

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de nada

Spanish phrase

de na·​da dā-ˈnä-t͟hä

: of nothing : you’re welcome

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Or “bitteschön” in German.

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Dunno how native speakers would do it, but usually I answer “bitte” for “danke”, “bitte schön” for “danke schön”.

Fun fact: saying “bitte” near my cat prompts her to rub her face on your leg. All the time. I speak in German with her, and when she obeys my commands I tell her “bitte” and pet her, so now she associated the word with being petted.

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Another fun fact: if you want to say “bitte schön” in Austrian German casual, you can just say “bitchin’.”

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If they “danke schön” me, I’ll usually respond with “darlin’”.

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I would translate it more closely to ‘keine Mühe’/‘keine Ursache’

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Oder “nichts zu danken”.

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Do you happen to know why it’s “keine Ursache”? That is a thing in Danish and Norwegian too (“ingen årsak”) and I always thought it was a weird phrase.

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I prefer the Colombian way of saying thanks.

“Con gusto”

It means “With pleasure”.

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Don’t touch my mustache

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Just as an additional tidbit, it’s the same in Portuguese as well!

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[Additional tidbit]

Pronunciation-wise it’s typically different, although in a weird way - both languages allow some variation depending on the speaker’s variety, but they don’t coincide. For example in Portuguese you could get [dɨˑ’näðɐ̥ˑ], [de’nädɐ], [dʒi’nadɐ̥ˑ], depending on where the speaker is from, but AFAIK you won’t find Spanish-like [ð] without a completely “un-Spanish-like” vowel reduction. In the meantime I kind of expect some Caribbean Spanish speakers to render the expression as [de’nää] de na’a.

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Very good point, in hindsight I should probably have clarified I was focusing on the written form when I replied

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