Larian Studios Forums General Chat Just say hello or hi or.......!!!

In Austria we say Hallo, Hi and Servus to friends, formally we would use Grüß Gott! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wave.gif" alt="" />

Goeiendag!
Anything counts, I hope, since "hallo" is been taken.
Doei! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wave.gif" alt="" />

As there is no cyrilics on this forum here is this pic:



It means: Hi, I am not at home today, come tomorrow. bye <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> (russian)


Tere - means "hi" in estonian.

In Romania we say "Ceau" or "Salut" or "Buna" and when we say goodbye we say "Pa" or "La Revedere" or "Ceau" again.

Ice Rhyme
Can you send me a PM that tells me if you live near Sibiu or Boecarest. I'm searching like forever for a friend of mine!!

Sorry,but I'm from Satu Mare.So what's your story?Can u speak romanian or something?Did u used to live in Romania?I wanna know.I'm sorry cause u can't find your friend,but u gained a new one(me) <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/silly.gif" alt="" />

Ho-Ho, Romania is neighbour to Moldova, my mother is moldavian. I have been there many times <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> And languages also have similarities.

A friend of mine lived in Siebenbürgen in Romania, a small german-speraking island in that country. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> Wonder what he's doing now ...

Normally, I would've said "Guten Tag" as greeting, but I like to use the "Moin" which is often used by people in north germany. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

The good thing is that although moin originally means "Guten Morgen" -> "Morgen" -> "Morjen" ? -> "Moin" , you can use it not only in the morning, but every day ! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" />

@ Alrik: is it only here in Sweden every day starts with a morning? (You can say good morning every day here as well. And yes I know you meant ALL day...)

Übereil

hmm over here we just say "G'day" that kinda sounds like "gidday" <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
apperently my mum used to say as in goodbye in Dutch something that sounded like "Doei" funny language me thinks <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shhh.gif" alt="" />

Goeie môre (good morning)
Goeie middag (good afternoon)
Goeie naand (good evening) - All of these can also be used without the "Goeie"
Haai daar (hi there)
Wees gegroet (be greeted - this is used a lot in religious meetings)

It's true Egin.The languages are similar just that their accent is a little bit stranger.

@ Mea

If you think Dutch is a funny language, what you think of these greetings?
Toedeloe!
'navend.
Sluukes!
Jup!
Hoi! and many more... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ROFL.gif" alt="" />

Toedeldoe is also an afrikaans greeting (mainly used as good buy),
navend is pronounced "naand" in afrikaans (used as a greeting in the evenings)
and Jup is also used, mainly as an informal way of saying yes.

We dont have an equivilant for "sluukes" (please use it in a sentence for me.... so i can figure out what we would use in its place)

Weird!!!:rofl: <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ROFL.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ROFL.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ROFL.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ROFL.gif" alt="" />
How about these:
Szio
Pa
I'm out of idea

Szio is pronounced Chiau here, and means bye (informal)
The closest i can come to Pa, is we often say "Ta Ta" when saying goodbey.

Geeze, allmost like Swedish. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" /> We say:

God morgon (good morning)
God Middag (good (after)noon, bu brother sais god eftermiddag note:efter=after (hard to guess, right <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />))
God kväll
Hej (där) (hi there)

And Ice_rhyme:



The funniest greeting ever, because it means sdomething totally different in English <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ROFL.gif" alt="" />

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@ Ubs
Afrikaans is not far from a lot of European languages (excluding french, spanish, portugese), I can understand many of the languages in written form.... I am lost when people speak it, due to the fact that i am not familiar with pronounciations of the languages.

Yeah, me too. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> Once got a call from a German from Hamburg. He spoke English (poorlly). I could haredly understand a word he was saying! Note that this was several years ago, AND my father (who is good at English, has speaken it daily for the last 40 years due to his work) had trouble understanding it (it had to do with sports clothes...), but anywhay...

Übereil

BULA!

thet say it all the time in fiji

(and i know because i was the bula king there <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />)