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Tiscali: Spanish Phrase Finder - Greetings

PHRASES

GREETINGS

You will often find the Spanish quite formal in their greetings, shaking hands both on meeting and parting. Frequent greetings include hola, buenos días, señor or hola, buenas tardes, señora. If you are saying good night and leaving you would say adiós, buenas noches.

Hello!	Goodbye!
¡Hola!	¡Adiós!
o-la	a-dyos

Good morning (until after lunch)
Buenos días
bwenos dee-as

Good afternoon / Good evening (until dusk)
Buenas tardes
bwenas tar-des

Good evening / Good night (after dark)
Buenas noches
bwenas no-ches

Pleased to meet you	It's a pleasure
Encantado(a)	Mucho gusto
enkan-tado(a)	moocho goosto

How are you?	Fine, thanks	And you?
¿Cómo está?	Bien, gracias	¿Y usted?
komo esta	byen grathyas	ee oosted

How are things
¿Qué tal?
ke tal

See you tomorrow	See you later
Hasta mañana	Hasta luego
asta ma-nyana	asta lwe-go

Until we meet again
Hasta la vista
asta la beesta

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