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good day
- (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 Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 200:Good day, and happineſſe, deere Roſalind.
- (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
- 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
- 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)
- Walloon: bondjoû (wa), diewåde (wa) (old)
- Welsh: dydd da
- West Frisian: goeie
- White Hmong: nyob zoo
- Zulu: sawubona (zu) (familiar), sanibonani (plural, respectful)
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