Learn Spanish-How to Greet Someone in Spanish- Basic Informal Conversation
¡Hola! Learn Spanish! In this video we are going to talk about how to greet someone using a basic informal conversation.
Hola (Hello, hi)
¿Cómo estás tú? (How are you?)
¿Cómo estás? (How are you?)
¡Tanto tiempo sin verte! (Long time no see!)
An informal way to greet would be:
¿Cómo estás tú?(How are you?)
But if you want to greet an older person or someone you do
not know you use:
¿Cómo está usted? (How are you?)
So, you use the usted-form for formal and the tu-form for
the informal (friends, young teens, children, pets, people
you know well).
¿Cómo está usted? for adults, people you do not know.
Other greetings are:
Buenos días (Good morning)
Buenas tardes (Good afternoon)
Buenas noches (Good night)
NOTICE: that buenos días is the only one that has an _O in
buenos. That is because días is a masculine word
therefore, it needs an adjective to be masculine
and in this case it is" buenos".
Buenas tardes and buenas noches are both
feminine.
So, do not write buenos tardes or buenos noches
You need to match the adjective that describe the
word in this case:
Buenos días (masculine with masculine)
Buenas tardes (feminine with feminine)
Buenas noches (feminine with feminine)
So , short encounter:
Hay dos personas (There are two people)
Se encuentran en la plaza central. (They find each other at
the main plaza.)
Se llaman Sr. Lopez y Sra. García. (They are named Mr.
Lopez and Mrs. García.)
Mr. Lopez greets Mrs. García:
- Buenas tardes. ¿Cómo está usted?
She answers:
-Buenas, muy bien, gracias , ¿Y usted?
-Bien gracias. ¡Tanto tiempo sin verle!
-Sí estoy bien ocupada con mis nietos.(Yes, I'm very busy
with my
grandchildren.)
-Entiendo. ¡Hasta otro día!
Other ways to greet informally:
¿Qué tal? (How are you doing?)
The answer could be:
más o menos (more or less)
bien (well)
muy bien (very well)
mal (bad)
Small quiz at the end of the video
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