Tja is one of the shortest but most versatile words in the German language. Close to the English ‘well’, you will hear it littered through almost every conversation.

Tja is sometimes described as a vocalised sigh or shrug, and is often used at the start of a sentence before you launch into the real meat of what you want to say.

Using this at the beginning of a statement sets the tone for your conversation, suggesting a slight sense of annoyance or resignation. Although the closest translation of tja in English is ‘well’, be careful using it too often, as it can have quite negative connotations in German.

Tja can also be a way of sounding trotzig, or contrary. If someone asks you a question and you are about to give an answer they might not expect, you may begin your response with tja to let them know you are going to challenge their expectations - in this case it would mean something along the lines of ‘well, actually’.

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But wouldn’t the coins just get washed away by the water immediately?

And how big are your pockets??

For a dam failure that sounds like a pittance.

exchange rates comparisons, especially for a falling currency, undervalue what the local buying power /economic impact of Billions of rubles is, in Russia.

The exchange rate is no longer valid. You can’t actually exchange US dollars into Russian Rubbles so to say 1R is worth 0.1$ doesn’t make sense because how can you make that comparison if you can’t actually do the conversion.

So at this point the exchange rate is just estimated but it might be much different if in theory we could actually do the exchange. Plus of course Russia is going to have to do this repair without actually having access to a large numbers of exterior markets. Again the fact that they can’t access markets that exchange rate calculations normally assume a country will have access to, messes up the calculations.