good night

See also: goodnight

English

English phrasebook

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Alternative forms

• goodnight
• g'night (colloquial)

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

Coordinate terms

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

Related terms

• goodnight Vienna
• nighty night

Translations

a farewell

• Abkhaz: ашара шәҙыбзиарахааит (āšārā š°ҙəbziārāxāāiṭ)
• Albanian: natën e mirë
• Aleut: angali kingachxicax
• Arabic: تُصْبِح عَلَى خَيْر‎‎ (tuṣbiḥ ʿalā ḵayr), لَيْلَة سَعِيدَة‎‎ (layla saʿīda)

  Hijazi Arabic: تصبح على خير‎‎ m (tiṣbaḥ ʿala ḵēr), و إنت من اهله‎‎ m (u inta min ahlu) (as a reply)

• Armenian: բարի գիշեր (bari gišer)
• Asturian: bones nueches, bona nueche
• Azerbaijani: gecəniz xeyrə qalsın
• Basque: gabon
• Belarusian: дабра́нач (dabránač)
• Breton: noz vat (br)
• Bulgarian: лека нощ (leka nošt)
• Catalan: bona nit (ca)
• Cebuano: maayong gabii
• Chechen: буьйса декъал йогIийла (büjsa deq̇al jogIīla)
• Chichewa: usiku wabwino
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: (formal) 晚安 (maan⁵ on¹), (informal) 早唞 (zou² tau²)

  Mandarin: 晚安 (zh) (wǎn'ān)

  Min Nan: 安眠 (zh-min-nan) (an-bîn)

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

  Bavarian: guade Nochd

• Greek: καληνύχτα (el) (kalinýchta), καλό βράδυ (kaló vrády)
• Greenlandic: sinilluarit
• Hawaiian: aloha pō
• Hebrew: לַיְלָה טוֹב‎‎ (he) (layla tov)
• Hindi: शुभ रात्रि (śubh rātri), गुड नाइट (guḍ nā'iṭ)
• Hungarian: jó éjszakát (hu)
• Icelandic: góða nótt (is)
• Ido: bona nokto
• Indonesian: selamat malam (id)
• Interlingua: bon nocte
• Irish: oíche mhaith
• Italian: buona notte (it), buonanotte (it)
• Japanese: おやすみなさい (oyasuminasai), おやすみ (ja) (oyasumi) (casual), おやすみやす (oyasumiyasu) (Kyoto)
• Javanese: sugeng dalu
• Khmer: រាត្រីសួស្ដី (rietrəy suəsdəy)
• Korean: 안녕히 주무십시오 (annyeonghi jumusipsio), 안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo), 잘 자요 (jal jayo)

• Kurdish:

  Sorani: شه‌و باش‎‎ (şew baş)

• Lao: ໃນ​ຕອນ​ກາງ​ຄືນ​ທີ່​ດີ​ (nai tǭn kāng khư̄n thī dī)
• Latin: bonas noctes, bonam noctem, vale (la), valete (la) pl
• Latvian: arlabunakti
• Lingala: butú elámu
• Lithuanian: labanaktis, labos nakties, saldžių sapnų
• Luxembourgish: gutt Nuecht
• Macedonian: лека ноќ (leka noḱ), добра ноќ f (dobra noḱ)
• Malay: selamat malam
• Maltese: il-lejl it-tajjeb, bonswa
• Navajo: nizhónígo háádíilyįh, nizhónígo niidoołkááł, yáʼátʼéehgo háádíilyįh
• Norman: bouan gniet
• Northern Sami: buorre idja
• Norwegian: god natt (no)
• Old English: gōde niht
• Persian: شب بخیر‎‎ (fa) (šab be-xeyr), شب خوش‎‎ (šab xoš)
• Polish: dobranoc (pl)
• Portuguese: boa noite (pt)
• Romanian: noapte bună
• Romansch: buna notg
• Russian: споко́йной но́чи (ru) (spokójnoj nóči)
• Samogitian: labanakt
• Scots: guid nicht
• Scottish Gaelic: oidhche mhath
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: лаку ноћ

  Roman: laku noć

• Sicilian: bona notti (scn)
• Slovak: dobrú noc
• Slovene: lahko noč
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: dobru noc

• Spanish: buenas noches (es)
• Swahili: usiku mwema
• Swedish: god natt (sv), go'natt (informal), natti (familiar; before going to sleep)
• Tagalog: magandang gabi
• Tamil: நல்ல இரவு (nalla iravu)
• Telugu: శుభరాత్రి (te) (śubharātri)
• Thai: ราตรีสวัสดิ์ (th) (raa-dtrii-sà-wàt)
• Turkish: iyi geceler
• Ukrainian: на добра́ніч (na dobránič)
• Urdu: شب بخیر‎‎ (śab baxair)
• Uzbek: xayrli tun
• Vietnamese: ngủ ngon
• Welsh: nos da
• West Frisian: goenacht, nacht (fy)
• Yiddish: אַ גוטע נאַכט‎‎ (yi) (a gute nakht)
• Zulu: lala kahle, ulale kahle (singular), lalani kahle, nilale kahle (plural)

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