good day

good day

English

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Phrase

good day

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

   Good day, gentlemen.

   Synonym: (Australia) g'day

   • 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 606515358, [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, 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 saʿīd), مَسَاء اَلْخَيْر‎ (masāʾ al-ḵayr); مَسَاء اَلنُّور‎ (masāʾ an-nūr) (response) Armenian: բարի օր (bari ōr) Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܝܵܘܡܵܐ ܒܪܝܼܟ݂ܵܐ‎ (yāwmā brīḵā) Aymara: suma urukiya Basque: egun on (eu) Belarusian: до́бры дзень (dóbry dzjenʹ) Bengali: শুভ দিন (śubhô 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, laba diena Lithuanian: labà dienà Low German: Paderbornish German Low German: guden Dag, gu'n Dag, gun Dag Luganda: osiibye otyanno? Luxembourgish: gudden Dag 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) Old English: gōdne dæg Ojibwe: boozhoo Ossetian: дæ 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) 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 Westrobothnian: gudag White Hmong: nyob zoo Zulu: sawubona (zu) (familiar), sanibonani (plural, respectful)

See also

• Category:Greetings