bon appétit

English

Alternative forms

• bon appetit

Etymology

From French bon appétit, from bon (“good”) + appétit (“appetite”).

Interjection

bon appétit!

1. Used to wish someone enjoyment of the meal they are about to eat.

Synonyms

• enjoy your meal

Translations

used to wish someone enjoyment of the meal they are about to eat

Albanian: please add this translation if you can Arabic: بالهناء والشفاء (ar) (bi-l-hanaa' wa al-shifaa') Armenian: բարի ախորժակ (hy) (bari axoržak) Azeri: nuş olsun Catalan: bon profit (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 慢慢吃 (cmn) (mànmàn chī), 請慢用 (cmn), 请慢用 (cmn) (qǐng màn yòng) Crimean Tatar: aş olsun Croatian: dobar tek Czech: dobrou chuť (cs) Danish: velbekomme (da) Dutch: smakelijk eten (nl), eet smakelijk (nl) Esperanto: bonan apetiton Estonian: head isu Finnish: hyvää ruokahalua (fi) French: bon appétit (fr) Georgian: ღმერთმა შეგარგოთ (ka) (ḡmert'ma šegargos) German: guten Appetit (de), guten Hunger (de) Ghotuo: cliche Greek: καλή όρεξη (el) (kalí órexi) Hebrew: בתאבון (be-teavon) Hindi: (sukh bhojan) Hungarian: jó étvágyat (hu)

Icelandic: verði þér að góðu (is), verði ykkur að góðu (is) Indonesian: selamat makan (id) Italian: buon appetito (it) Japanese: 頂きます (ja) (いただきます, itadakimasu), どうぞめしあがれ (ja) (dōzo meshiagare) Kannada: ಚೆನ್ನಾಗಿ ಊಟ ಮಾಡಿ (kn) (chennagi oota maadi) Korean: 맛있게 드세요 (ko) (masitge deuseyo) Kyrgyz: аш болсун Latvian: labu apetīti Lithuanian: gero apetito Norwegian: vel bekomme, spis godt (no) håper det smaker Persian: نوش جان (nushe jan) Polish: smacznego (pl) Portuguese: bom apetite (pt) Romanian: poftă bună Russian: приятного аппетита (ru) (prijátnogo appetíta) Serbian: prijatno (sr) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: пријатно (sh) (prijatno), добар тек (sh) (dobar tek) Latin: prijatno (sh), dobar tek (sh) Slovak: dobrú chuť Slovene: dober tek (sl) Spanish: buen provecho (es) Swedish: smaklig måltid (sv) Turkish: afiyet olsun (tr) Ukrainian: смачного (uk) (smačnóho) Vietnamese: ăn nào (vi) Xhosa: ukonwabele ukutya kwakho (xh)

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /bɔn‿a.pe.ti/

Interjection

bon appétit

1. bon appétit, enjoy your meal