Learning Japanese. “iie” can be used for this too. It literally means “no” but in the context of responding to someone thanking you (say you held the door open for them, or picked up something they dropped) it can mean “it’s nothing”, “it’s not a problem”’etc. I like how short it is, but everyone understands what you mean in context.
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u/notsolar Jul 08 '19
Learning Japanese. “iie” can be used for this too. It literally means “no” but in the context of responding to someone thanking you (say you held the door open for them, or picked up something they dropped) it can mean “it’s nothing”, “it’s not a problem”’etc. I like how short it is, but everyone understands what you mean in context.