buenos días
See also: buenos dias
Spanish
[edit]Spanish phrasebook
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Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˌbwenos ˈdias/ [ˌbwe.noz ˈð̞i.as]
Audio: (file) Audio: (file) - Syllabification: bue‧nos dí‧as
Interjection
[edit]- good morning
- Synonym: buen día
- Coordinate terms: buenas tardes, buenas noches
Usage notes
[edit]- In Spain typically used until noon.
- The variant buen día is less common (or literary) and is only commonly used as a greeting in the Río de la Plata region.[1]
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “día”, in Diccionario panhispánico de dudas [Pan-Hispanic Dictionary of Doubts] (in Spanish), 2nd edition, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española]; Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2023, →ISBN
Further reading
[edit]- “buenos días”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025