see you

English

English phrasebook

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiː juː/, /ˈsiː jə/

• Audio (Received Pronunciation):

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Phrase

see you

1. (informal) see you later.
   • 1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, Vintage (2019), page 71:

     “See you,” I said. My tag line. Still the only way I have to say goodbye. See you. What did it mean? No tense. Elliptical. Almost an imperative. It must have been the last thing I ever said to my father. See you.

2. Used as a farewell, stating the next time the speaker and interlocutor(s) will see each other.

   See you at the weekend!

3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see see,‎ you.

Synonyms

• CU
• sithee (Yorkshire, Lancashire)
• be seeing you
• I'll be seeing you

Related terms

• see you soon
• see you when I see you
• see you in hell

Translations

see you later

• Arabic: سَلَام عَلَيْكُم وَرَحْمَةْ اللّٰه وَبَرَكَاتُهُ (salām ʕalaykum waraḥmat allāh wabarakātuhu), سَلَام (ar) (salām), إِلَى اللِّقَاء قَرِيبًا (ʔilā l-liqāʔ qarīban)

  Hijazi Arabic: نِشوفك (nišūfak)

• Armenian: կտեսնվենք (ktesnvenkʻ)
• Azerbaijani: görüşənədək
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 拜拜 (zh) (báibái), 回頭見 / 回头见 (zh) (huítóu jiàn), 回見 / 回见 (zh) (huíjiàn), 一會兒見 / 一会儿见 (yīhuìr jiàn, yīhuǐr jiàn), 再會 / 再会 (zh) (zàihuì)

• Czech: ahoj (cs)
• Danish: vi ses (da), på gensyn (da)
• Dutch: later (nl), mazzel (nl)
• Esperanto: ĝis (eo)
• Estonian: näeme, nägemiseni
• Finnish: nähdään (fi), näkemiin (fi), jälleennäkemisiin
• French: à plus (fr)
• Galician: vémonos, a máis ver
• Georgian: ნახვამდის (naxvamdis), შეხვედრამდე (šexvedramde)
• German: bis bald (de), bis dann (de), tschüss (de), wir sehen uns
• Greek: τα λέμε (el) (ta léme), τα λέμε αργότερα (ta léme argótera)
• Hebrew: להתראות (he) (lehitra'ót)
• Hungarian: viszlát (hu)
• Inari Sami: uáinimân
• Italian: arrivederci (it), ciao (it)
• Jamaican Creole: likkle more
• Japanese: じゃあね (jā ne), じゃ、また (ja, mata), またね (mata ne), バイバイ (ja) (baibai), ジャね (ja ne), ジャ (ja) (ja)
• Kazakh: кездескенше (kezdeskenşe)
• Khmer: លាហើយ (lie haǝy), លាសិនហើយ (lie sən haǝy)
• Korean: 안녕 (ko) (annyeong)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: uz redzēšanos (lv)
• Lithuanian: iki (lt)
• Macedonian: се гледаме (se gledame)
• Malayalam: വീണ്ടും കാണാം (vīṇṭuṁ kāṇāṁ)
• Maltese: ċaw
• Marathi: भेटू (bheṭū)
• Mongolian: дараа уулзая
• Neapolitan: ce verimmo
• Nepali: पछि भेटौँला (pachi bheṭa͠ulā)
• Northern Sami: oaidnaleapmái
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vi sees, vi ses, snakkes (no), på gjensyn

  Nynorsk: vi sest, vi talast, me sjåast

• Persian: می‌بینمت (mi-binamet)
• Polish: (informal) do zobaczenia (pl), na razie (pl), cześć (pl), (colloquial) nara (pl), (familiar) pa (pl), pa pa, bywaj (bookish)
• Portuguese: falou (pt), até (pt), até mais (pt)
• Romanian: ne vedem, pe mai târziu
• Russian: пока́ (ru) (poká), до встре́чи (do vstréči), увидимся (ru) (uvidimsja)
• Samoan: feiloai mulimuli ane
• Serbo-Croatian: vidimo se
• Skolt Sami: vuõinnlõõttâp
• Slovak: ahoj (sk)
• Slovene: se vidiva
• Spanish: nos vemos, nos veremos
• Swedish: vi ses (sv)
• Tamil: உன்னை பார்ககிஸ்ரக்றேன் (uṉṉai pārkakisrakṟēṉ)
• Tetum: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: พขกันใหม่ (phb kan hım)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Tongan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: sonra görüşürüz, görüşürüz (tr)
• Ukrainian: побачимось m or f (pobachymos')
• Vietnamese: hẹn gặp lại
• White Hmong: pom koj tom qab
• Zazaki: bahdo pê vinem

Anagrams

• you see, youees