I have just returned from visiting my bf's family in Italy and his grandmother used to constantly say "managia" or maybe "ma na gia" can you tell me what it means please?
2006-11-30 22:31:55 · 10 answers · asked by Petaloutha 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
she wasn't talking about eating! I know what mangia means....
2006-11-30 22:38:25 · update #1
It's kind of caramba in spanish, merde in french, ghamoto in
greek. It depends on the way it is said ; i mean the voice tone!-
Ciao.......John-John.
2006-12-01 10:29:57 · answer #1 · answered by John-John 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, there's a bad word, minigiata (don't know if I spelled it right) but I don't think that the grandmother would have used it. I speak italian pretty moderate and have lots of italian friends and Mingia or mingiata is something like d i c k or something. Can't really translate it 100% but it's a bad word. Did she say it to you?
2006-11-30 23:34:59 · answer #2 · answered by pearl_682 3 · 0⤊ 5⤋
"Mannaggia" (with 2 N) in italian is a very polite way to say "damn!".
"Eat!" is "mangia" or "mangiate", NOT "mannaggia".
2006-11-30 22:45:42 · answer #3 · answered by siliadityr 3 · 7⤊ 0⤋
I'm Italian, the word is 'mannaggia' and it means something like 'damn!' a bit more polite though;)
2006-11-30 23:21:14 · answer #4 · answered by Love_my_Cornish_Knight❤️ 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
"mannaggia" means "darn it"...it's sort of a soft curse word that you use when something goes wrong or not the way you want it to go...thumbs up to all the Italians who've answered...don't listen to the rest...;))
2006-12-01 01:47:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mangia means Eat up!!!!!
2006-11-30 22:35:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 5⤋
Hi I am an italian boy.................it means: it's a didaster.
2006-12-01 00:34:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
It means literally : Eat ! Won't you eat a bit ? ( She urged you to eat something, whatever it was )
2006-11-30 22:47:49 · answer #8 · answered by javornik1270 6 · 0⤊ 4⤋
it means damn it, but it's not a bad word!
2006-12-01 02:58:09 · answer #9 · answered by uruguayan84 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why don't you ask your boyfrined? So simple.
2006-11-30 22:58:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋