good night

See also goodnight

English

English phrasebook

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Alternative forms

• goodnight

Etymology

Probably a shortening of "May you have a good night."

Pronunciation

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Phrase

good night

1. A farewell said in the evening or before going to sleep.

Synonyms

• night
• night night

Related terms

• goodnight Vienna
• nighty night

Coordinate terms

• good afternoon
• good day
• good evening
• good morning

Translations

a farewell

• Abkhaz: ашара шәҙыбзиарахааит (ab) (ašara š°ʒybziaraxaait)
• Aleut: angali kingachxicax
• Arabic: تصبح على خير (ar) (tuSbiH 'alaa khayr), ليلة سعيدة (ar) (laylah sa3iida)
• Armenian: բարի գիշեր (hy) (bari gisher)
• Asturian: bones nueches (ast)
• Azeri: gecəniz xeyrə qalsın (az)
• Basque: gabon (eu)
• Belarusian: дабранач (be) (dabránač)
• Breton: noz vat
• Bulgarian: лека нощ (bg) (leka nošt)
• Catalan: bona nit (ca)
• Chechen: буьйса декъал йогIийла (büysa deq̇al yoġiyla)
• Chichewa: usiku wabwino
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: (formal) 晚安, (informal) 早唞

  Mandarin: 晚安 (cmn) (wǎn'ān)

• Czech: dobrou noc (cs)
• Danish: godnat (da)
• Dutch: goedenacht (nl), goeienacht (nl), before going to sleep welterusten (nl), trusten (nl) (familiar)
• Esperanto: bonan nokton (eo)
• Estonian: head ööd (et)
• Ewe: dɔ agbe
• Faroese: góða nátt (fo)
• Finnish: hyvää yötä (fi)
• French: bonne nuit (fr)
• Galician: boas noites (gl)
• Georgian: ღამე ნებისა (ğame nebisa), ძილი ნებისა (ka) (jili nebisa)
• German: gute Nacht (de)

  Bavarian: guade Nochd

• Greek: καληνύχτα (el) (kalinýchta), καλό βράδυ (el) (kaló vrády)
• Guernésiais: bouan gniet
• Hebrew: לַיְלָה טוֹב (he) (layla tov)
• Hindi: शुभ रात्रि (hi) (śubh rātri), गुड नाइट (hi) (guḍ nā'iṭ)
• Hungarian: jó éjszakát (hu)
• Icelandic: góða nótt (is)
• Ido: please add this translation if you can
• Indonesian: selamat malam (id)
• Interlingua: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: oíche mhaith
• Italian: buona notte (it)

• Japanese: おやすみなさい (ja) (oyasuminasai), おやすみ (ja) (oyasumi) (casual)
• Khmer: រាត្រីសួស្ដី (km)
• Korean: 안녕히 주무십시요 (ko) (annyonghi jumushipsiyo), 잘 주무세요 (ko) (jal jumuseyo), 잘자요 (ko) (jaljayo)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: شه‌و باش

• Latin: bona nox (la)
• Latvian: labu nakti (lv), saldus sapņus (lv), ar labu nakti (lv)
• Lithuanian: labanaktis (lt), labos nakties (lt), saldžių sapnų (lt)
• Luxembourgish: gutt Nuecht (lb)
• Macedonian: лека ноќ (mk) (léka noḱ), добра ноќ (mk) (dóbra noḱ) f
• Malay: selamat malam (ms)
• Maltese: il-lejl it-tajjeb (mt), bonswa (mt)
• Norwegian: god natt (no)
• Persian: شب بخیر (fa) (šab bexeyr), شب خوش (fa) (šab xoš)
• Polish: dobranoc (pl)
• Portuguese: boa noite (pt)
• Romanian: noapte bună (ro)
• Russian: спокойной ночи (ru) (spokójnoj nóči)
• Samogitian: labanakt
• Scots: guid nicht
• Scottish Gaelic: oidhche mhath (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: лаку ноћ (sh)

  Roman: laku noć (sh)

• Sicilian: bona notti (scn)
• Slovak: dobrú noc (sk)
• Slovene: lahko noč (sl)
• Spanish: buenas noches (es)
• Swedish: god natt (sv), go'natt (sv) (informal), natti (sv) (familiar; before going to sleep)
• Tagalog: magandang gabi (tl)
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: ราตรีสวัสดิ์ (th) (râat-dtree sàwàt)
• Turkish: iyi geceler (tr)
• Ukrainian: на добраніч (uk) (na dobránič)
• Urdu: شب بخیر (ur) (shab bākhair)
• Uzbek: xayrli tun (uz)
• Vietnamese: chúc ngủ ngon (vi)
• Welsh: nos da (cy)

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