ENGLISH → NEPALI
phatic
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adjective
सम्पर्क-भाषिक
Pertaining to words used to convey any kind of social relationship and whose meaning is otherwise either deemphasized or absent.
In a sentence
You needn't be angry about the insincerity of shopkeepers' how-are-you greetings. Well-adjusted people understand that the question is phatic in the context and that that's usually no problem.
पसलेहरूको नमस्ते जस्ता अभिवादनको निष्कपटतामा तपाईं रिसाउनु पर्दैन। सन्तुलित मानिसहरू बुझ्छन् कि यो प्रश्न सन्दर्भमा सम्पर्क-भाषिक हो र सामान्यतया यो कुनै समस्या होइन।
Some dialects of a language may use a certain term or phrase in a phatic way, even if other dialects don't.
कुनै भाषाका केही बोलीहरूले कुनै शब्द वा वाक्यांशलाई सम्पर्क-भाषिक तरिकाले प्रयोग गर्न सक्छन्, अन्य बोलीहरूले नगरे पनि।