Bom dia - good morning
Boa tarde - good afternoon
Boa noite - good night
Selamat Pagi - Good Morning
Selamat Tengahari - Good Noon
Selamat Petang - Good Afternoon/Evening
Selamat Malam - Good Night
God morgon (good morning)
God Middag (good (after)noon, bu brother sais god eftermiddag note:efter=after (hard to guess, right ))
Goeie môre (good morning)
Goeie middag (good afternoon)
Goeie naand (good evening) - All of these can also be used without the "Goeie"
navend is pronounced "naand" in afrikaans (used as a greeting in the evenings)
We have something similar here in Germany.
In the morning : "Guten Morgen", short form (kind of slang) : "Morgen"
Around high noon : I often hear "Malzeit" because a Malzeit is something to eat. From high noon to 14.00 it is normally time to eat.
In the afternoon : "Guten Tag", short form : "Tag"
In the evening : "Guten Abend", short form : " 'Nabend" (spoken "nabend" or "naabend" , depending on part of the country you are in [influence of dialects] , similar to the quote above <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> )
In the night (if ever <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" /> ) : "Gute Nacht", short form : "Nacht", with an ch like in "Loch Ness". "Gute Nacht" is normally only said when going to bed at night, because you'll hardly ever meet a person at nicht. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> (Well, at least outside towns <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> )
In short :
Guten Morgen - Good Morning
Guten Tag - Good Afternoon
Guten Abend - Good Evening
Gute Nacht - Good Night
@ 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, that's why I sometimes read in the dutch-language forum-part here ! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" />