buenas noches

Ladino

Alternative forms

• buenas nočes (Yugoslavia), buenas notches (French orthography)

Interjection

buenas noches (Hebrew spelling בואינאס נוג׳יס)

1. good evening

   Hypernym: shalom

   Coordinate terms: buenas tadres, buenos dias

   • 1996, Sara Benveniste Benrey, edited by Yossi Benbenisty, Espertando el djudeo espanyol: poemas realidas i philosophia, kantes, sketches, piesas de teatro‎^[1], Yossi Benbenisty, page 118:

     Buenas noches, espero kon la piyesa ke vamoz a prezentar keseyama “Sigundo kazamyento” todos endjuntos vamos una alegre i horoza nochada a pasar, i ke en muy serka tiempo no vamos poderla olvidar.

     Good evening, I hope that with the play that we are about to show that’s called ‘Following [the] marriage’, we are all going to have a joyful and happy little night together, and that we’ll be unable to forget it too soon.

Spanish

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌbwenas ˈnot͡ʃes/ [ˌbwe.naz ˈno.t͡ʃes]

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• Syllabification: bue‧nas no‧ches

Interjection

buenas noches

1. good evening (used as a greeting in the evening)

   Hypernym: hola

2. good night (a farewell said in the evening or before going to sleep)

   Synonym: buena noche

See also

• que pases buenas noches
• que pase buenas noches

Further reading

• “buenas noches”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10