Good afternoon in many languages

These are phrases you use when you greet people in the afternoon. Exactly when you use these phrases varies from country to country. In some languages, Spanish for example, the same words are used for afternoon and evening.

Language	Phrase
Afrikaans	Goeie middag
Albanian	Mirëdita
Alsatian	Güete Nàchmittag
Arabic (Egyptian)	(misa' il kẖayr) مساء الخير response - (misa' in noor) مساء النّور
Arabic (Moroccan)	(mselkẖīr) مساء الخير
Aragonese	Buena tardi
Armenian (Eastern)	Բարի' օր: (Bari or) - rarely used
Asturian	Bones tardes
Azerbaijani	Yaxşi gün, Hər vaxtınız xeyir
Basque	Arratsalde on
Bosnian	Dobar dan
Breton	Demat
Bulgarian	Добър ден (Dobãr den)
Catalan	Bona tarda
Chamorro	Buenos tatdes
Chinese (Cantonese)	午安 (ńgh ón)
Chinese (Mandarin)	午安 (wǔān)
Chinese (Taiwanese)	午安 (go-on)
Cornish	Dohajydh da
Croatian	Dobar dan
Czech	Dobré odpoledne
Danish	God aften
Dutch	Goedemiddag / Goeiemiddag
Esperanto	Bonan posttagmezon
Estonian	Tere päevast
Faroese	Góðan dagin
Finnish	Hyvää päivää
French	Bonjour Bon après-midi
Frisian (West)	Goemiddei
Friulian	Bundì
Gaelic (Irish)	Tráthnóna maith (duit)
Gaelic (Manx)	Fastyr mie
Gaelic (Scottish)	Feasgar math
Galician	Boa tarde
Georgian	დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
German	Guten Nachmittag, Guten Tag
Greek	Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
Greenlandic	ᐅᓄᓴᑯᑦ (Unusakut)
Hawaiian	Aloha ʻauinalâ
Hebrew	(achar tzahara'im tovim) אחר צהריים טובים
Hindi	नमस्ते (Namaste)
Hungarian	Jó napot (kívánok)
Icelandic	Góðan daginn, Góðan dag
Ilocano	Naimbag a malem
Indonesian	Selamat siang
Inuktitut	ᐅᓐᓄᓴᒃᑯᑦ (Unnuhatkut/Unnusakkut)
Iñupiaq	Unnusatkun
Italian	Buongiorno Buon pomeriggio
Japanese	今日は (konnichiwa)
Jèrriais	Bouônjour
Kazakh	Қайырлы күн (Qayırlı kün)
Korean	안녕하십니까 (annyeonghashimnikka)
Latvian	Labdien
Limburgish	Gojemiddig
Lithuanian	Laba diena
Luxembourgish	Gudde Mëtteg
Macedonian	Добар ден (Dobar den)
Malay	Selamat tenga hari (12-2pm) Selamat petang (2-7pm)
Maltese	Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Māori	Kia ora
Mauritian Creole	Bon apré-midi
Mongolian	Өдрийн мэнд (Ödriin mend)
Nepali	नमस्कार (namaskar)
Norwegian	God ettermiddag
Occitan	Bon vèspre
Papiamentu	Bon tardi
Persian	(zohr bekheir) ظهر بخير
Polish	Dzień dobry
Portuguese	Boa tarde
Romanian	Bună ziua
Russian	Добрый день (Dobryj den')
Sardinian	Bonas tardas
Scots	Guid efternuin
Serbian	Добар дан (Dobar dan)
Shona	Masikati / Masikati, maswera sei? (reply)
Slovak	Dobré popoludnie
Slovenian	Dober dan
Spanish	Buenas tardes
Stellingwarfs	Goeiemiddag
Swahili	Habari ya mchana
Swedish	God eftermiddag
Tagalog	Magandang hapon po (frm) Magandang hapon (inf)
Tok Pisin	Apinum
Turkish	Tünaydın, İyi günler
Ukrainian	Добрий день (Dobryj den')
Urdu	(roz bākhair) روز بخير
Uzbek	Hayirli kun
Vietnamese	Xin chào
Welsh	P'nawn da, Prynhawn da
Xhosa	Uben' emva kwemini entle / Ube nemini emnandi
Yapese	Fal'e misii
Yiddish	(A gut ovnt) א גוט אָוונט

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Links

Useful phrases in various European languages
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