Using "desde luego"

Question

Why does this mean "of course"?

I answered this question for you before: http://www.spanishdict.com/answers/287750/desde-luego - bosquederoble, Dec 23, 2016

I don't want to simply repeat that answer- I know it was primarily in Spanish, what more specifically are you trying to find out? - bosquederoble, Dec 23, 2016

I read the link. It's very good. Did you need more information from us, Kyle? Bosque's answer was quite extensive. Please let us know. :) - rac1, Dec 24, 2016

Answer 1

Easy answer. It means "certainly" or "of course"

If you would simply go to the translator on the home page you would have found it, plus many examples in sentences. Many such expressions can be found in the translator. Please use it for simple things like this.

Big Edit!

I saw that I really didn't answer your question. There is no real reason why "desde luego" should mean "certainly" or "of course" It's just an idiomatic expression like "¿Qué tal?" (literally "what such") which we use to mean, "How ya doin'?"

Here's a link to make it easy.

desde luego

http://www.spanishdict.com/translate/desde luego

The links don't seem to be working, but you can copy and paste and you will get there. - Daniela2041, Dec 23, 2016

I made your link work. :) - bosquederoble, Dec 24, 2016

Gracias, I couldn't figure out what was wrong. - Daniela2041, Dec 24, 2016

If you don't know how to create a fake/proxy url, you can't fix it- urls with spaces do not work at this site, so you actually have to rename it. :) - bosquederoble, Dec 24, 2016