The most common greeting at any hour of the day is hola (=hi). Some people may use a shortened form of the typical greetings and just say Buenas. (Don’t worry, we will see more about masculine and feminine words later) Other ways of greeting in Spanish
Noche is a feminine word so buenas needs to be in feminine form too (ending in -AS). Tarde is a feminine word so buenas needs to be in feminine form too (ending in -AS). Why do you use buenos with días and buenas with tardes and noches?ĭía is a masculine word so buenos needs to be in masculine form too (ending in -OS). If you are still awake at that time and you haven’t gone to bed yet, you would use buenas noches as a greeting. If you are getting up VERY early (you might be a baker or in some other profession that has to get up much earlier than everyone else) then you would use the greeting buenos días. At this time you could use either buenos días or buenas noches. The tricky part is during the early morning hours from midnight ( la medianoche) until around 4 in the morning (called la madrugada in Spanish).
However, unlike in English where good night is used to say goodbye or when you are going to bed, in Spanish buenas noches can be used as a greeting.
The three common greetings used in Spanish:īuenas noches = good evening / good nightįrom the moment you wake up you can start using buenos días (assuming you are not getting out of bed in the afternoon as some people do).Īfter midday ( el mediodía) you use buenas tardes until sunset ( la puesta del sol).Īfter sunset you would say buenas noches which is similar to our good evening though literally translates as good night. Una pequea coleccin de frases de buenos das A continuacin os dejamos una serie de frases de buenos das con la que podis motivaros para despertaros o desearles un buen da a vuestros seres queridos.
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