not at all

English

Adverb

not at all

1. (emphatic) Not.
   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 3, in The Celebrity:

     Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.

   He's not at all friendly towards his ex-wife.‎

2. (idiomatic) Used similarly to you're welcome, as a conventional reply to an expression of gratitude.

   Thank you for this very thoughtful present. — Not at all.‎

Synonyms

• (emphatically: not): by no means, hardly, in no way, not in the least, not in the slightest, not the least bit, not the slightest bit
• (conventional reply to expression of gratitude): don't mention it, forget it, it's nothing, no problem, that's all right, that's OK, think nothing of it, you're welcome; see also Wikisaurus:you're welcome

Translations

not

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 毫不 (zh) ‎(háobù), 並不 (zh), 并不 (zh) ‎(bìngbù), 決不 (zh), 决不 (zh) ‎(juébù), 並未 (zh), 并未 (zh) ‎(bìngwèi)

• Danish: overhovedet ikke, slet ikke
• Dutch: helemaal niet
• Esperanto: tute ne
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: ei lainkaan, ei yhtään
• French: pas du tout (fr)
• German: überhaupt nicht
• Greek: καθόλου (el) ‎(kathólou)
• Ido: tote ne
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} non ... per niente

• Japanese: 全然 (ja) ‎(ぜんぜん, zenzen)
• Korean: 결코 (ko) ‎(gyeolko)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: نه‌خێر (ku)

• Macedonian: во́општо не ‎(vóopšto ne), ни́малку ‎(nímalku), ич ‎(ič) (colloquial)
• Polish: wcale nie
• Portuguese: nada (pt), não... em nada, não... em absoluto
• Russian: во́все нет ‎(vóvse net), отню́дь (нет) ‎(otnjúdʹ (net)), ничу́ть не ‎(ničútʹ ne) (colloquial, followed by adjectives or adverbials)
• Scots: no ava
• Spanish: en absoluto, para nada
• Swedish: inte alls, alls inte, rakt inte

conventional reply to expression of gratitude

• Arabic: عَفْوًا ‎(ʿafwan), عَلَى الرُحْب وَالسَّعَة ‎(ʿalā r-ruḥb wa-s-saʿa), اَلْعَفْو ‎(al-ʿafw)

  Moroccan: لا شكرا على واجب

• Armenian: խնդրեմ ‎(xndrem)
• Azeri: dəyməz
• Belarusian: няма́ за што́ ‎(njamá za štó), калі́ ла́ска ‎(kalí láska)
• Bulgarian: ня́ма защо́ ‎(njáma zaštó)
• Catalan: de res (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不客氣 (zh), 不客气 (zh) ‎(bù kèqi), 不用謝, 不用谢 ‎(bùyòngxiè), 不謝, 不谢 ‎(bùxiè)

• Czech: není zač (cs), prosím (cs), rádo se stalo (cs), za málo
• Esperanto: ne dankinde (eo)
• Finnish: ei lainkaan, eipä kestä (fi)
• French: de rien (fr) (it’s nothing), il n'y a pas de quoi (fr), pas de quoi (fr)
• Georgian: არაფრის ‎(arapris), არაფერს ‎(arapers)
• German: bitte (de), gern geschehen (de), keine Ursache (de)
• Greek: τίποτα (el) ‎(típota)
• Hindi: कुछ नहीं ‎(kuch nahī̃)
• Hungarian: nincs mit (hu)
• Ido: ne dankinde
• Italian: prego (it), non c'è di che (it)
• Japanese: どう致しまして ‎(どういたしまして, dō itashimashite), とんでもない (ja) ‎(tonde mo nai), いいえ (ja) ‎(iie) (informal)
• Khmer: អញ្ជើញ (km) ‎(əñjerñ)
• Korean: 천만에요 ‎(cheonmaneyo), 아니에요 (ko) ‎(anieyo)
• Lao: ບໍ່ເປັນຫຍັງ ‎(bǭ pen nyang)

• Latvian: nav par ko (lv)
• Lithuanian: nėra už ką
• Macedonian: не́ма на што ‎(néma na što), по́велете и друг пат ‎(póvelete i drug pat), молам ‎(mólam)
• Mongolian: зүгээр (mn) ‎(zügeer)
• Persian: قابل نداشت ‎(qâbel nadašt), خواهش می‌کنم (fa) ‎(xaheš mi-konam)
• Polish: proszę (pl), nie ma za co
• Portuguese: de nada (pt), por nada
• Russian: не́ за что (ru) ‎(né za što), пожа́луйста (ru) ‎(požálujsta) (read: požálusta), не сто́ит благода́рности (ru) ‎(ne stóit blagodárnosti), на здоро́вье (ru) ‎(na zdoróvʹje)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: нема на чему, молим

  Roman: nema na čemu, molim (sh)

• Slovak: nie je za čo, za málo, prosím
• Slovene: ni za kaj
• Spanish: de nada (es), no hay de qué
• Swedish: ingen orsak (sv), det var så lite (sv)
• Thai: ไม่เป็นไร ‎(mâi bpen rai) (it’s nothing)
• Turkish: önemli değil, bir şey değil, rica ederim (tr)
• Ukrainian: нема́ за́ що ‎(nemá zá ščo), будь ла́ска (uk) ‎(budʹ láska)
• Vietnamese: không có gì (it’s nothing), không có chi

See also

• at all