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[dapper dust]

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[merry thicket]

Two salient ones that come to mind:

"si" as in "if"

"si" as in "but yes!" (or maybe "but no!"...), used in particular when someone asks a negative question and you contradict the negation by answering in the affirmative.

[tacit thistle]

can you use it as « so » too? Like « si triste » ou si stupide

[merry thicket]

Of course, "si" as in "so"...

Yes yes, good one.

Oh, the musical note.

The leading tone, the 7th note of the major scale is referred to as "si"...

[hot sphinx]

just ‘but yes’, idk if it can mean ‘but no’

[merry thicket]

I believe it…my uncertainty is more on the translation than the semantics. Like, for some negative English sentences I think I might answer “no! I did!” Or something. “You didn’t take the kids to school yet?!” “No, of course, I already took the kids to school”

[crisp saffron]

yes and no are just kind of ambiguous in english responding to a negative question