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Old 12-26-2024, 04:52 PM   #3320
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Originally Posted by Renate View Post
Well, it's like negative questions. They don't translate well out of English. "Don't you want to go to dinner?"
In Estonian negative questions are quite common and translate perfectly well. The example above would mean exactly the same in Estonian.

We even have an analogue to "Do you mind?", although it's far less common and used rarely.
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