27 more ways to say Hallo in German
But there are numerous other ways to say hello in German. Most of them are predominantly used in a particular age range, in a certain time or even in a certain region of Germany. If youre learning German, its good to have already heard of them once to understand them when people are talking to you. But perhaps additionally, you will like to adopt a few examples that you fancy to make them part of your own active vocabulary.
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We categorized the greetings into different groups and possess prepared decodings [literal translations in square brackets] if helpful, and audio examples that show pronunciation and intonation, that correspond to the example situation in (brackets). Nevertheless can give you a first idea about the use of the individual greetings, even though these situations of course, are only examples.
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time dependent
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1. Guten Morgen!
[Good morning! ]
(partners meeting on the company; teacher to year 5 - year 5 to teacher)
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2. Morgen!
[Morning! ]
(child still half at sleep; student greeting teacher passing by)
3. N�Morgen!
[(goo)d�morning]
(man meets neighbour on the bakery)
4. Guten!
[Bon (appetit)]
(student enters the cafeteria and sees some friends of his that already eat)
5. Guten Abend!
[Good evening] formal
(ticket takers with a theater)
6. Abend!
[Evening! ]
(man meeting colleagues at the evening)
7. N�Abend!
[(Goo)d�evening]
(adults meeting in the evening on the supermarket)
8. guten Tag!
[Good day! ] rather formal
(at the interview between 4 and 9am pm)
9. Tag!
[Day! ]
(partners meet)
casual
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10. Hi!
(age: 6-30; 1. meeting your mates, 2. Meeting somebody new of your own age)
11. Hey!
(12-30; (a) Answering a �Hi�, b) Hello here I am just, 3. c) Hello, what�s wrong? )
youth slang
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12. Joooo!
[Yoooo] (14-25, male) (1. Meeting your mates, 2. Answering a �Joo�/�Hallo�/�
13. Servoooz!
(16-22; young male adults meeting in Speyer (a German city; example for a local slang; basically a strange pronunciation of Servus! )
artificial, trilled
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14. Hallihallo!
[Hellihello]
(animator to youngsters)
15. Hall�chen!
[little-Hello]
(mother coming home in excellent mood)
regional
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16. Moin!
(North Germany at each and every time of day (though it sounds a little just like a short form for Morgen! [Morning! ] it's probably a derivate from your Dutch mo(o)i [good])
17. Moinsen!
(North Germany; younger people)
18. Servus!
(South Germany) (more standard German pronunciation; Bavarian)
19. Sers!
(South Germany)
20. Gr�� dich!
(friends 35 meet; rather South)
21. Gr�� Gott!
(40 , particularly towards local pastor; rather South)
just weird:
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22. Tagchen.
[little-Day]
(Weird people ;))
outside of the box - especially saying hello back
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23. Na?
(basically asking you to tell something that has happened lately) Alternatively, just to tell how you are; father coming home from work)
24. Na, du?
(identical to Na? More playful; mother to young child; a girl asking her boyfriend how he is, though )
25. Na, alles klar?
[Na, everything clear? ]
(12-25: checking if everything is alright; male friends meet - you will not expect a comprehensive answer, just something similar to "Ajo, und bei dir? " [Yeah, as well as at/with you? ])
26. Na, alles fit?
[Na, everything fit? ]
(14-25; just like "Na, alles klar" meeting a friend which has been away some days or the like)
27. Na, was geht?
[Na, what goes? ]
(=Hey, what's up? , 14-22; esp. male; adolescents meeting)
Das war's.
[That was't]
That's it!
ABER HALLO!
[But hello! ]
Hell yeah!
Take note that age indications are very subjective and in all likelihood also region dependent. Please also note once more that this is known as yet another ressource for any reason, it's totally sufficient to stay with the examples that people picked for you as part of the core content of the course; these are the most frequent. We merely felt like you need to be provided with a far more detailed overview, in the event that interests you. So we hope you enjoyed it. Please feel free to leave a comment if you you want to, especially if you have any further questions, or suggestions.