Austrian: What is the phrase that sounds like "Da die so" and "da ma' so" in the context "it's completed/ we're all done"?

Question

I'm living in Austria at the moment. I keep hearing people saying something that sounds like "Da die so". I mistook it for "daddys home" the first few times I heard it. I've also heard "da ma so".

These must be dialect or at least shortened words, but I can't figure out what they are saying exactly. From the context it is something like it's completed / we're all done.

Does anybody know?

Answer 1

What you hear as "Da die so" is in fact

Tat i so = Täte ich so

Or with some more words:

Des tat i a so = Das täte ich auch so

It means:

This is how I would do it.

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What you hear as "da ma so" is in fact

tamma so = tun wir so

In many Bavarian dialects (to which almost all Austrian dialects belong) lenis and fortis consonants often sound the same, so it's hard to tell t and d apart from each other. And also very often words are joined together, so that "tan + ma" ("tun + wir") become one word: "tamma"

The phrase "tamma so" is often meant as:

tamma hoit so ois ob = tun wir eben so als ob

and it means

let's behave as if

An alternative meaning of German »tun wir so«, independent from the dialect, is

let's do it this way.

This strongly depends on the context. This ambiguity is not a speciality of any dialect, it exists also in standard German.

Answer 2

Yes this is a dialect. "Da ma so" is the short form for "So machen wir es" which translates roughly to "That's how we will do it"

I can't however decipher "Da die so".

Answer 3

As others have already explained, "Däd i so" and "Damma so" translate to

Däd i so. = Täte ich so. = Würde ich so machen.
Damma so. = Tun wir so. = Machen wir so.

To provide a bit of context and help you understand dialect phrases on your on, I created a small dictionary of commonly shortened expressions. It includes mostly pronouns and variations of "tun", "gehen" and "sein". With that in mind, it shouldn't be too hard to decipher most dialect speech.

Pronouns

ich = i, ie
sie = se
wir = mir, ma, mr
ein = a
mein = mei, moi, ma
dein = dei, da
sein = sei, sa
deren = dennr

Variations of "tun"

täte = däd
tust du = tusch
tun wir = tamma, damma, demmr
tun sie = danse, dense

Variations of "gehen"

gehst du = gosch
geht es = gods
gehen wir = gamma, gammr, gemmr

Variations of "sein"

bin ich = benni
bist du = bisch
ist er = issr
ist sie = isse
ist es = ischs
sind wir = samma, sammr, semmr
seid ihr = sans, sands, seids, seidr
sind sie = sanse, sense

Answer 4

In addition to what others have answered another possibility could be the following:

When you understood

• "Da die so" and
• "da ma' so"

it was in reality

• "Dad i sogn" ("Täte ich sagen") and
• "Dan ma sogn" ("Täten wir sagen").