good afternoon

English

English phrasebook

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Etymology

Probably a shortening of "I wish you a good afternoon."

Pronunciation

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Phrase

good afternoon

1. (rather formal in US, Canada) A greeting or farewell said in the afternoon.

   Good afternoon everyone and thank you for coming to our special meeting today.

   • 1992 April 5, “The Full House”, in Jeeves and Wooster, Series 3, Episode 2:

     Jeeves: Good afternoon, madam.
     Landlady: Don't you good afternoon me. I'm a respectable woman.
     Jeeves: I have no reason to doubt it, madam.

Coordinate terms

• good morning
• good noon
• good day
• good evening
• good night

Translations

greeting said in the afternoon

• Afrikaans: goeie middag (af)
• Albanian: mirëdita (sq)
• Arabic: مَسَاء الْخَيْر (masāʔ al-ḵayr), مَسَاء النُّور (masāʔ an-nūr) (the answer), السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُم (ar) (as-salāmu ʕalaykum), نَهَارُكُم سَعِيد (nahārukum saʕīd)
• Armenian: բարի օր (bari ōr)
• Azerbaijani: günortan xeyir, günortanız xeyir pl
• Basque: arratsalde on (eu)
• Belarusian: до́бры дзень (dóbry dzjenʹ)
• Bengali: শুভ অপরাহ্ন (śubho oporahno)
• Bikol Central: marhay na hapon
• Bulgarian: добъ́р ден (dobǎ́r den)
• Catalan: bona tarda (ca)
• Cebuano: maayong hapon, maayong udto (at midday only)
• Chechen: де дика дойла (de dika dojla)
• Chichewa: (greeting) mwasewela bwanji?, (response) ndasewela bwino
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 午安 (ng⁵ on¹)

  Hokkien: 午安 (zh-min-nan) (ngó͘-an), (Philippines) 好暗晡 (hó͘ àm-po͘)

  Mandarin: 下午好 (xiàwǔhǎo), 你好 (zh) (nǐhǎo), 午安 (zh) (wǔ'ān)

• Czech: dobrý den (cs)
• Danish: god dag, god eftermiddag (rare)
• Dutch: (Flanders) goedenamiddag, goeienamiddag; (Netherlands) goedemiddag (nl), goeiemiddag (nl), goedendag (nl)
• Esperanto: bonan posttagmezon
• Estonian: tere päevast (et)
• Ewe: ŋdɔ
• Faroese: góðan dag, góðan seinnapart
• Finnish: hyvää päivää (fi), hyvää iltapäivää (fi)
• French: bonjour (fr) (when meeting), bon après-midi (when leaving)
• Galician: boa tarde f, boas tardes
• Georgian: გამარჯობა (ka) (gamarǯoba), შუადღე მშვიდობისა (šuadɣe mšvidobisa)
• German: guten Tag (de), guten Nachmittag (uncommon)
• Greek: καλό απόγευμα (kaló apógevma), καλημέρα (el) (kaliméra)
• Hawaiian: aloha ʻauinalā
• Hebrew: צָהֳרַיִם טוֹבִים (tsohoráyim tovím)
• Hiligaynon: maayong udto
• Hindi: नमस्ते (hi) (namaste) (generic), शुभ दोपहर (śubh dopahar), गुड आफ़्टरनून (guḍ āfṭarnūn)
• Hungarian: jó napot (hu) (during forenoon and afternoon), jó napot kívánok (hu)
• Icelandic: góðan dag (is)
• Ilocano: naimbag a malem
• Inari Sami: pyeri peivi
• Indonesian: selamat siang (id) (between 12.00 - 15.00), selamat sore (id) (after 15.00 - 18.00 or before it's dark)
• Ingrian: tere päivää, hyvvää päivää
• Italian: buon pomeriggio, buongiorno (it)
• Japanese: こんにちは (ja) (konnichi wa), 今日は (ja) (こんにちは, konnichi wa)
• Javanese: sugeng siang (before 16.00), sugeng sonten (after 16.00)
• K'iche': xeq'ij
• Kazakh: қайырлы күн (qaiyrly kün), ассалаумағалейкум (assalaumağaleikum)
• Khmer: សាយណ្ហសួស្តី (saayan suəsdəy)
• Korean: 안녕하세요 (ko) (annyeong-haseyo) (generic), 안녕하십니까 (annyeong-hasimnikka) (honorific), 안녕 (ko) (annyeong) (casual), 좋은 오후에요 (jo'eun ohu-eyo) (uncommon)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ڕۆژ باش (roj baş)

• Lao: ສະບາຍດີ (sa bāi dī)
• Latvian: labvakar (lv)
• Lithuanian: laba diena
• Luxembourgish: gudden Nomëtteg
• Macanese: bô-tarde
• Macedonian: добар ден (dobar den)
• Malay: selamat petang (ms)
• Maltese: waranofsinhar it-tajjeb
• Northern Sami: buorre beaivi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: god dag (no), god ettermiddag

• Palauan: ungil sueleb
• Persian:

  Classical Persian: عَصْر بَخَیْر (asr baxayr), ظُهْر بَخَیْر (zuhr baxayr), سَلَام عَلَیْکُم (salām alaykum)

  Iranian Persian: عَصْر بِخِیْر (asr bexeyr), ظُهْر بِخِیْر (zohr bexeyr), سَلَام عَلِیْکُم (salâm aleykom)

• Polish: dzień dobry (pl)
• Portuguese: boa tarde (pt)
• Romanian: bună ziua
• Russian: до́брый день (ru) (dóbryj denʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: feasgar math
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: до̏бар да̑н

  Roman: dȍbar dȃn

• Skolt Sami: tiõrv
• Slovak: dobrý deň
• Slovene: dober dan
• Spanish: buenas tardes (es)
• Swahili: masalkheri (used by Muslims)
• Swedish: god eftermiddag (sv), god dag (sv)
• Tagalog: magandang hapon, magandang tanghali (at midday only)
• Tajik: салом алайкум (tg) (salom alaykum), рӯзи хуш (rüz-i xuš)
• Thai: สวัสดี (th) (sà-wàt-dii)
• Turkish: iyi günler (tr), tünaydın (tr) (seldom)
• Tz'utujil: kakh 'ikh
• Ukrainian: до́брий день (dóbryj denʹ), добри́день (uk) (dobrýdenʹ)
• Urdu: دوپَہَر بَخَیر (dopahar baxair), گُڈ آفْٹَرْنُون (guḍ āfṭarnūn), سَلام عَلَیکُم (salām 'alaikum)
• Uzbek: xayrli kun, salomalaykum (uz)
• Welsh: prynhawn da
• West Frisian: goemiddei, middei
• Winnebago: wira rocąje haixa pį
• Zulu: sawubona (zu) (familiar), sanibonani (plural, respectful)