International 'Hello's and 'Good-Bye's

[RheinControl]

Hi folks,

I know such a thread already exists, but it's more than 4 years old and contains thousands of errors.
I'd like to collect the ways to say hello and good-bye in the common languages. As I want a good quality here, please be a native speaker of the language you post.


All I know for sure is German:

hello: Hallo

good morning: Guten Morgen

(between noon and evening): Guten Tag

good evening: Guten Abend

bye: Tschüss (sounds like the English 'cheers', just drop the 'r' - very common)
or: Auf Wiederhören (very formal)
or: Tschau (sounds like the Italian 'ciao')

thank you: Danke
or: Vielen Dank


In Bavaria and Austria (in addition to the above mentionned words):

hello: Servus
or Grüss Gott

bye: Servus

[Jerricho]

Australian:

Hello - "G'day"

Goodbye - "G'day"

[Richard Taylor]

As a native Aberdonian,I'd like to say...

FIT LIKE,MIN ?

Translated to: "How are you,my man"?

[Mr R Sole]

Continuing on the Aberdeen theme, I called up Milan Control whilst en route to Malpensa one day with:

'Milan - Fit like a day'!

[chiglet]

Goodbye in Malteese is Sah-ha.....
Heard a tale of a "Large Airport near London" who said Goodbye in French, German, Dutch etc.... except he never said it to the Nationality concerned
watp,iktch

[AlanM]

Or the Irish "Good luuck"

(Try and avoid saying "bye bye you fecker"!)

[niknak]

A colleague (who'd spent not some considerable time studying his colloquial Estonian internet phrasebook) recently responded to an Estonian freighter captain's impecable English greeting over the R/T.

A perplexed but amused member of the flight crew later on asked if he really meant to say "Donkey was today"....

[Lon More]

Glaswegian phraseology

Acknowledge - Djaunnerstawn pal?
Affirmative - Aye atsrite
Break – Hodoan
Correction – Aw****
How do you read? - Yegoatyer lugsoan?
I say again - Wanmertime pal
Negative - Noway pal
Over – Overinnat
Out – Ahmoaf
Pass your message – Geezrapatter
Read back - Whiddajist tellye?
Roger - Okay pal
Say again - Geezrapatter again
Speak slower – Geezitininglish
Stand by – Hodoanahmbizzy
That is correct - Spotoan / Atsragemme
Verify – Yerjokin
Wilco – Naeborra
Words twice - Acannaunnerstawn, geezrapatter twiceower
Cleared to land – Getoan ragrunn
Line up and hold - Hodoan ratar
Cleared take off – Oanyer bike / Oanyer wyepal


There was a German colleague at Maastricht who tried to say "Dosvidanya" to an Aeroflot pilot and it came out as "Gröss Britannia"

[Richard Taylor]

The word "Fit" in Aiberdeen has different meanings - you can construct a sentence up here where the word has different meanings:

"Fit like min,fit's 'at on yer fit"?

"HOW are you,WHAT'S that on your FOOT?"

Incidentally,a particular BA pilot when flying to ABZ always greets the approach controller with "...Fit like...".I've yet to hear them respond with "Nae bad".

In Dundee they just use plurals:

Mum to son: Where that meat peh (pie) ?
Son to mum: O,I E I A (Oh,I ate it all).

[Gargleblaster]

If anybody here talks to Reykjavík (or is it Iceland) Radio going over the pond, you could try to impress them with this:

Good day: Goðan dag (the 'ð' is pronounced as the 'th' in ('this')
Good evening: Gott kvöld (the 'ö' pronounced as the 'ö' in Köln (the German town))
Good night: Goða nott
Good bye: Bless bless

[jangler909]

Here's a few phrases in Finnish with pronounciation tips:

HELLO (informal) = "terve" [say: "TEHR-veh"]
GOOD DAY = "hyvää päivää" ["HUU-vaa PIGH-vaa"]
GOOD MORNING = "hyvää huomenta" ["HUU-vaa HOO-oh-mehn-tah"]
GOOD EVENING = "hyvää iltaa" ["HUU-vaa EEL-tah"]
GOOD NIGHT = "hyvää yötä" ["HUU-vaa UU-eu-ta"]
GOODBYE = "näkemiin" ["NAK-eh-meen"]
GOODBYE (informal) = "hei hei" ["HAY-hay"]
THANK YOU = "kiitos" ["KEE-tohss"]

[M609]

Despite what some may have told a UK Helo crew (Or at least we hope it's the case!)

"Dra til helvete" is not Norwegian for "Good bye"!!!!

[Jerricho]

What is it Norwegian for then

[M609]

(Go to a certain place)

[JayeRipley]

Not quite relevant but:

A colleague always says "the height checks" when given a level check on departure. I've often wondered whether the CSA crews think he's asking for another one!

[Spuds McKenzie]

In Zurich:

Hello: "Grüezi"

Good morning: "Guete Morge"

Good evening: "Guete'n'Ohbe"

Bye: "Ade", "Tschüss", "Uf wederlose", "Tschau"

Thank you: "Danke", "Merci"

[atco-matic]

Typing these phonetically as I haven't a clue how to spell them... feel free to correct if any are wrong...

Good evening:

In Finnish: Hoover-ilter
In Maltese: Ee-lie-la-tie-ev
In Turkish: Ee-ak-sham-lar

Portuguese:

Bom-dia= good day
Bom-noite=good night

Greek:

Kalimera- good morning
Kalispera- good evening

[Xfr8dog]

In New York:
How ya dooin.
(BTW Marker on the ILS 4R EWR is DOOIN)

In Texas:
Howdy

Anywhere in the US:
See ya!

[DirtyPierre]

Jerricho,

Don't forget the alternative to Gidday, "hooroo".

Hooroo to you blue.