Thread: Quick question

Hi everyone,

How would you tell someone to have a good evening? Not just good evening but "have a good evening" or "have a good night". Someone polite to say as you are leaving besides пока or До свидания. Any help would be appreciated.

Спасибо большое

Sara

Спокойной ночи - Good night

You could say, as a polite way to part:

Good day! - Добрый день!
Good evening! - Добрый вечер!

If you want to emphasize that they HAVE a good evening

Желаю Вам доброго вечера!

If you mean something like "have a good evening" or "enjoy your evening" you can't really find a direct analogy in Russian. Добрый вечер is used as greeting, спокойной ночи means good night.... You could say something like "Желаю вам хорошо/весело/приятно провести вечер" but it is not really used instead of a good bye, only as an addition to one...

Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie

You could say, as a polite way to part:

Good day! - Добрый день!
Good evening! - Добрый вечер!

If you want to emphasize that they HAVE a good evening

Желаю Вам доброго вечера!

he asked for parting words, not a greeting. Im starting to think that people on this forum dont even read entire posts, they just jump right into trying to show off some skillz.

Anyways, as far as perticular sayings for NIGHT TIME, I dont know besides 'good night'. If ur just looking for something diffrent then say like до встречи, or Давай браток... чемодан скоро будет в нашей власти

Whatever the situation calls for.

Well, maybe you not aware of this, but you can use these phrases as parting words! They are polite words, maybe a little archaic.

And if you had read his post fully yourself he wanted POLITE words not давай браток, you skill shower, you!

well i've never heard of 'good evening' as a goodbye but ok. And that last one waz a joke.

Thank you all very much.
I know that it is difficult to translate an expression and I appreciate all your help.

Sara

well it wasnt that hard but ok ur welcome.

Originally Posted by sprty100

Hi everyone,

How would you tell someone to have a good evening? Not just good evening but "have a good evening" or "have a good night". Someone polite to say as you are leaving besides пока or До свидания. Any help would be appreciated.

Спасибо большое

Sara

I'd say, "Пока! Удачно провести вечер!" - you should remember that it's informal. If you don't say "ты" to each other, you can say more formally, "До свидания.Желаю Вам приятного вечера".