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deri kur un do ha dajak qotek

English translation: until when I am going to get beaten thus?

00:21 Mar 30, 2019
Albanian to English translations [PRO]
Idioms / Maxims / Sayings
Albanian term or phrase: deri kur un do ha dajak qotek
What does this mean?
My guess is, "... to the extreme that I have to suffer severe beatings".
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larserik
Sweden
Local time: 10:18
English translation:until when I am going to get beaten thus?
Explanation:
until when I am going to be beaten like this?
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Klementina Shahini
United States
Local time: 04:18
Grading comment
Faleminderit shumë! It was more straightforward than I thought...
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Summary of answers provided
5until when I am going to get beaten thus?
Klementina Shahini
5will there ever be a last time that I get beat up
Bajram Djambazi
Summary of reference entries provided
ha dajak = ha qotek
Ledja

  

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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
until when I am going to get beaten thus?


Explanation:
until when I am going to be beaten like this?

Klementina Shahini
United States
Local time: 04:18
Native speaker of: Native in AlbanianAlbanian
PRO pts in category: 72
Grading comment
Faleminderit shumë! It was more straightforward than I thought...
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14 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
will there ever be a last time that I get beat up


Explanation:
Would this "beating me up" ever come to an end?...(talking about how s/he continuously gets beat up and asking it as a rhetorical question whether it will ever come to an end).

Bajram Djambazi
United States
Local time: 03:18
Native speaker of: Native in AlbanianAlbanian, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 12
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Reference comments


17 hrs
Reference: ha dajak = ha qotek

Reference information:
You would have to sign up to read it, but the attached link contains an explanation that comes from Macedonia and seems to be used by the Albanian-speaking population there.

Example sentence(s):
  • "Alb. ha qotek, Mac. jade Jcotek 'get a beating1 (lit. 'to eat a beating')

    https://www.jstor.org/stable/40996859?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Ledja
United Kingdom
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Native speaker of: Albanian
PRO pts in category: 68
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