good day

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English

English phrasebook

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Alternative forms

• good-day (dated)

Pronunciation

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Phrase

good day

1. (dated, formal) A somewhat formal greeting generally used between sunrise and sunset.

   Synonym: (Australia) g'day

   Good day, gentlemen.

   • c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 200:

     Good day, and happineſſe, deere Roſalind.

2. (dated, formal) A dismissal; sometimes used to express annoyance.

   Perhaps another time. Good day.

   • 2012, Mike Cerrone, Bobby & Peter Farrelly, The Three Stooges (motion picture), spoken by Carbunkle (Ray Collins):

     This is an invitation-only party! Now, good day!

Translations

greeting between sunrise and sunset

• Abkhaz: уа, мшы бзиа (wa, mŝə bzja)
• Afrikaans: goeiedag
• Albanian: mirëdita (sq)
• Arabic: نَهَارَك سَعِيد (nahārak saʕīd), مَسَاء اَلْخَيْر (masāʔ al-ḵayr); مَسَاء اَلنُّور (masāʔ an-nūr) (response)
• Armenian: բարի օր (bari ōr)
• Aromanian: bunã dzua
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܝܵܘܡܵܐ ܒܪܝܼܟ݂ܵܐ (yāwmā brīḵā)
• Aymara: suma urukiya
• Basque: egun on (eu)
• Belarusian: до́бры дзень (dóbry dzjenʹ)
• Bengali: শুভ দিন (śubho din)
• Bikol Central: marhay na aldaw
• Breton: demat (br)
• Bulgarian: добъ́р ден (dobǎ́r den)
• Catalan: bon dia (ca)
• Cebuano: maayong adlaw
• Chechen: де дика дойла (de dika dojla)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 日安 (zh) (rì'ān), 你好 (zh) (nǐhǎo)

• Czech: dobrý den (cs)
• Danish: goddag (da)
• Dutch: goedendag (nl), goeiedag (nl)
• Esperanto: bonan tagon
• Estonian: tere päevast (et)
• Faroese: góðan dag
• Finnish: hyvää päivää (fi), päivää (fi)
• French: bonjour (fr)
• Galician: bos días
• Georgian: დღე მშვიდობისა (dɣe mšvidobisa)
• German: guten Tag (de), Tach
• Greek: καλημέρα (el) (kaliméra)
• Greenlandic: kutaa
• Hanunoo: mayad pag sirang
• Hausa: barka da rana
• Hawaiian: aloha awakea
• Hebrew: יום נעים (yom na'ím), שָׁלוֹם (he) (shalom)
• Hindi: नमस्ते (hi) (namaste) (generic)
• Hungarian: (less formal) jó napot (hu), (more formal) jó napot kívánok (hu)
• Icelandic: góðan dag (is)
• Ido: bona jorno
• Ilocano: naimbag nga aldaw
• Indonesian: selamat sore (id), selamat siang (id)
• Ingrian: tere päivää, hyvvää päivää
• Italian: buon giorno, buongiorno (it)
• Iu Mien: yiem longx nyei
• Japanese: こんにちは (ja) (konnichi wa), 今日は (ja) (こんにちは, konnichi wa)
• Javanese: sugeng siang, sugeng rinten
• Kapampangan: mayap a aldo
• Karelian: hyviä päiviä, terveh taloih (when entering a house)
• Khmer: ថ្ងៃល្អ (tŋay l’ɑɑ), ទិវាសួស្ដី (ti’vie suəsdəy)
• Komi-Zyrian: бур лун (bur lun)
• Korean: 안녕하세요 (ko) (annyeonghaseyo), 안녕하십니까 (annyeonghasimnikka) (honorific), 안녕 (ko) (annyeong) (casual)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: rojbaş (ku)

• Latvian: labdien (lv), laba diena (lv)
• Lithuanian: labà dienà
• Low German:

  Paderbornish German Low German: guden Dag, gu'n Dag, gun Dag

• Luganda: osiibye otyanno?
• Luxembourgish: gudden Dag
• Macanese: bôm-dia
• Macedonian: добар ден (dobar den)
• Malagasy: manao ahoana (mg), tsarandro (mg), tsara andro
• Malay: selamat pagi (ms)
• Maltese: il-ġurnata t-tajba
• Navajo: yáʼátʼééh
• Northern Ohlone: HorSe Tuuxi
• Norwegian: god dag (no)
• Ojibwe: boozhoo
• Old English: gōdne dæg
• Ossetian: дӕ бон хорз (dæ bon xorz) (Iron), дӕ бон хуарз (dæ bon xwarz) (Digoron)
• Persian: روز بخیر (fa) (ruz be-xeyr)
• Polish: dzień dobry (pl)
• Portuguese: bom dia (pt)
• Quechua: allin p'unchay, allin p'unchaj
• Romani: laćho dǐves, dobroj tut (singular), dobroj tumen (plural)
• Romanian: bună ziua
• Russian: до́брый день (ru) (dóbryj denʹ)
• Sami:

  Inari: pyeri peivi

  Northern: buorrẹ beaivi

  Skolt: tiõrv

  Southern: buerie biejjie

• Scottish Gaelic: latha math
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: до̏бар да̑н

  Roman: dȍbar dȃn

• Slovak: dobrý deň
• Slovene: dóber dán
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: dobry źeń

  Upper Sorbian: dobry dźeń

• Spanish: buenos días (es), (informal) buenas (es)
• Sranan Tongo: odi
• Swahili: habari za mchana (noon or afternoon), habari za leo, siku njema
• Swedish: god dag (sv)
• Tagalog: magandang araw (tl)
• Thai: สวัสดี (th) (sà-wàt-dii)
• Turkish: iyi günler (tr)
• Udmurt: бур нуналэн (bur nunalen)
• Ukrainian: до́брий день (dóbryj denʹ), добридень (uk) (dobrydenʹ)
• Urdu: روز بخیر (roz baxair)
• Walloon: bondjoû (wa), diewåde (wa) (old)
• Welsh: dydd da
• West Frisian: goeie
• White Hmong: nyob zoo
• Zulu: sawubona (zu) (familiar), sanibonani (plural, respectful)

See also

• Category:English greetings