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30 Apr 2020
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I want to have a literal meaning of the following expression.
- non c'è di che!
i know its semantic meaning being "di niente" or just "prego".
but literally
there is no "che"?
Is this reply was somehow ( originally) used to reply for sentences such as,
A: felice che ( tu sia arrivato in anticipo per aiutarmi ).
B: Non c'è di che!
so he is saying :
non c'è di che in a way that no i did nothing to deserve that (minimizing the importance of the clause after "che"?)
please enlighten me 😋.
I want to have a literal meaning of the following expression.
- non c'è di che!
i know its semantic meaning being "di niente" or just "prego".
but literally
there is no "che"?
Is this reply was somehow ( originally) used to reply for sentences such as,
A: felice che ( tu sia arrivato in anticipo per aiutarmi ).
B: Non c'è di che!
so he is saying :
non c'è di che in a way that no i did nothing to deserve that (minimizing the importance of the clause after "che"?)
please enlighten me 😋.
- non c'è di che!
i know its semantic meaning being "di niente" or just "prego".
but literally
there is no "che"?
Is this reply was somehow ( originally) used to reply for sentences such as,
A: felice che ( tu sia arrivato in anticipo per aiutarmi ).
B: Non c'è di che!
so he is saying :
non c'è di che in a way that no i did nothing to deserve that (minimizing the importance of the clause after "che"?)
please enlighten me 😋.
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It's short for "non c'è di che ringraziarmi" (non c'è niente per cui tu mi debba ringraziare)
It was basically a longer version of "di niente"
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It's short for "non c'è di che ringraziarmi" (non c'è niente per cui tu mi debba ringraziare)
It was basically a longer version of "di niente"
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Thank you @naisel !
please clarify one more thing 😊.
If I were to write your first sentence myself, I would say,
Non c'è di cio/quello che tu mi debba ringraziare.
is there an implicit cio? (like in english we omit relative pronouns very often (ex He is the man (whom) i told you about!)
please clarify one more thing 😊.
If I were to write your first sentence myself, I would say,
Non c'è di cio/quello che tu mi debba ringraziare.
is there an implicit cio? (like in english we omit relative pronouns very often (ex He is the man (whom) i told you about!)
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There is no implicit pronoun, here the pronoun is "che".
In this kind of sentence it means something/nothing, a similar construction can happen with the verb avere:
non hanno di che mangiare (non hanno nulla da mangiare) = they have nothing to eat
This kind of grammar is not commonly used in an informal conversation, but the short "non c'è di che" is common
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@DzSapiens yes it's the same!
Here you can read more on how it's used in Italian: http://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/che2_%28Sino...
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