Timeline for What connotations does "Danke Schön" carry?
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| May 4, 2022 at 10:01 | comment | added | xehpuk | @ojdo There is. Doesn't change the fact that it's "danke schön" in this case. | |
| May 4, 2022 at 6:36 | comment | added | Tilman Schmidt | Or "bitteschön". | |
| May 3, 2022 at 17:57 | comment | added | Llewellyn | @SpehroPefhany You might have misheard "Gern geschehen" ("You're welcome") | |
| May 3, 2022 at 17:50 | comment | added | Spehro 'speff' Pefhany | I believe I’ve heard schön as a response to danke.. is that possible? | |
| May 3, 2022 at 7:56 | comment | added | ojdo | @xehpuk I am sure there is the contracted noun as well: duden.de/rechtschreibung/Dankeschoen | |
| May 2, 2022 at 14:27 | comment | added | xehpuk | @infinitezero It's "danke schön", not "Dankeschön". | |
| May 2, 2022 at 11:07 | comment | added | Sebastian Redl | "Pretty please!" comes to mind. Of course, that carries a very different level of formality than "Danke schön!" | |
| May 2, 2022 at 8:17 | comment | added | Peter Cordes | Possibly related, in English "that's pretty good" or "pretty darn good" are also used as embellishments for "good". (With the first one in English weakening it (like "fairly good" or "somewhat good") unless tone of voice indicates otherwise. But "pretty darn good" is always more emphatic). I barely know a few pieces of phrasebook German, but this explanation of "Danke schön", and @RDBury's comment happening to put "pretty" and "good" together, pretty much made me think of cases where "pretty" is used as an embellishment in English. | |
| May 1, 2022 at 14:09 | comment | added | Robbie | Oh, that's really interesting. Danke schön!! | |
| May 1, 2022 at 14:08 | vote | accept | Robbie | ||
| May 1, 2022 at 7:54 | comment | added | infinitezero | They can even be used together, i.e. "Vielen Dank, Dankeschön!" if you really want to express gratitude | |
| May 1, 2022 at 4:26 | comment | added | RDBury | Understanding schön can be tricky for English speakers. Not only can it be used as both an adjective or an adverb, but it has diverse meanings not covered by a single English word. So "pretty", "nice", "good", and the corresponding adverbs, might all be used as translations. Then there's the fact that schon, which looks and sounds almost the same, means something completely different. | |
| Apr 30, 2022 at 23:37 | history | answered | Tilman Schmidt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |