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I keep hearing something like "pali" or "bali" in a speech which might mean "Ok", "All right" as I understand from the context. I didn't find that word in a dictionary. What can it be?

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    Is not Bali is Vale, meaning ok.
    – ileanna
    Commented Jul 9, 2017 at 13:11
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    You can find the expression vale (meaning "OK") in the DLE entry for the verb valer here.
    – Charlie
    Commented Jul 11, 2017 at 13:00

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What is said is "vale" (literally "it values / it is worth"), a very common interjection indeed meaning "OK / All right".

Note that the letters V and B are pronounced the same by most native Spanish speakers and that their pronunciation is closer to an English B than to an English V, the reason why you misheard that V.

See Historical pronunciation of letters "b" and "v"

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    I know this is an almost 10 year old question and answer, an dI'm sure the OP has moved on, but I think that the key issue the OP was facing was how "v" is pronounced in Spanish - sounding like an English "b"
    – Peter M
    Commented Apr 2 at 23:37
  • @PeterM Right, answer updated. Thanks.
    – Gavatx
    Commented Apr 2 at 23:44

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