What does “¿qué perdón ni qué nada?” mean in Spanish?

Ni qué nada is how Spanish brushes off an excuse or objection on the spot: tack it onto whatever the other person just said and you’re saying “don’t give me that” or “no way.” In the clip, a grandmother waves away an apology with ¿Qué perdón ni qué nada? — “What 'sorry'? Forget it” — before handing over the mop anyway. The pattern is ¿qué X ni qué nada?, where X is simply whatever word you want to dismiss.

The slot is flexible: ¿qué frío ni qué nada, abrígate! (“what cold, just put on a coat!”) or ¿qué cansado ni qué nada! (“tired, my foot!”) work the same way. A related but separate construction, ni que + subjunctive, adds sarcasm to a comparison — ni que fuera millonario, “as if I were a millionaire.” Both lean on ni qué to wave something away.