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It is the short form of a more formal salutation, "Gesegnete Mahlzeit" (archaic term, de: Blessed mealtime). [1] The salutation is commonly used without connection to food or eating in Northern Germany, and this usage, corresponding to something like "hello, everyone" or "I'm off, folks", is becoming more and more widespread in informal ...
Like many languages, German has pronouns for both familiar (used with family members, intimate friends, and children) and polite forms of address. The polite equivalent of "you" is "Sie." Grammatically speaking, this is the 3rd-person-plural form, and, as a subject of a sentence, it always takes the 3rd-person-plural forms of verbs and ...
"Thank you, I will" or "Thank you" Serbian: Наздравље (Nazdravie) Pis Maco, which is mostly used with children "To your health" "Go away kitten" (as the sound of sneezing is said to sound like a cat's cough) Хвала Less frequently: Истина or Здравље да имаш "Thank you" Less frequently: "It is true" or "Health you ...
Shelton says the phrase 'wishing you well" shows goodwill and is appropriate for many occasions and recipients, from thank you cards to farewell notes when leaving a job. 14. Sincerely
As languages, English and German descend from the common ancestor language West Germanic and further back to Proto-Germanic; because of this, some English words are essentially identical to their German lexical counterparts, either in spelling (Hand, Sand, Finger) or pronunciation ("fish" = Fisch, "mouse" = Maus), or both (Arm, Ring); these are ...
The final U.S. Figure Skating Championships before the 2026 Milan Olympics will take place in St. Louis. U.S. Figure Skating announced Monday the 2026 nationals would be Jan. 5-11 at the ...
The first way to respond to a comment is simple: just say, “Thank you!” Sometimes, you only need to say something short to alleviate any awkwardness after receiving a compliment.
Grüß Gott is, however, the shortened form of both (es) grüße dich Gott and its plural (es) grüße euch Gott "may God greet you". In addition, in Middle High German, the verb grüßen (grüezen) used to mean not only "to greet" but also "to bless", so the greeting in fact preserves the original meaning "God bless you", [1] though even ...