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1st Apr 2021

The Punisher (2004)

Question: What is Frank saying during the arms transaction and what is the language? The last part of what he says sounds phonetically similar to "dinga hoash."

Phaneron

Answer: Heavy Spoilers break down of this film that Frank in this scene is in disguise as Otto Krieg. And supposedly is able to speak German, Russian, and Arabic. So doing some research and getting Chat GPT to help find the answer, there isn't anything from Russian or Arabic that sounds like "dinga hoash." However in German it is very close to "Dinge hast," which would roughly translate to "you have things." So it would seem basically he was saying "Do you got the stuff?" from what I can gather.

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Thanks. I've been meaning to watch this scene with a translator app on my phone to see if it would recognise it, but I just never remembered to.

Phaneron

So I finally pulled up the clip on YouTube and turned the subtitles on. It says in this part that they are speaking Russian. This seems to make sense, as the crime boss's name is Yuri Astrov, and his accent sounds Russian. Unfortunately, the translator app on my phone can't pick up what they are saying, so I think I will have to look up a sub-Reddit for people who speak Russian and ask for their assistance.

Phaneron

Update: A Redditor informed me that the characters are essentially speaking broken Russian, and the translations are roughly "Whatcha doing?", "money good," and "okay." "Money good" translated into Russian is "den'gi khoroshiye."

Phaneron

Huh, interesting.

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