How To Say “Goodbye” In Different Languages
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There’s this warm, sweet series called Bear in the Big Blue House. The show is about this friendly bear and his curious mates and their shenanigans in the big blue house. They do lots of singing and dancing and laughing and exploring. At the end of each episode, Bear introduces us to his friend Luna the moon and they sing a very catchy goodbye song that makes you feel better and grateful and looking forward to tomorrow.
Really, something about this goodbye bop (yes it’s a bop – don’t argue) is so soothing as if saying goodbye isn’t the saddest thing in the world. And it isn’t, it shouldn’t be. Besides, Bear and Luna the moon up above the night sky and the rest of the blue house gang make saying a simple goodbye a little bit more bearable, a little bit more sweeter than bitter.
- English: goodbye (good-by)
- French: au revoir (oh ruh-vwah)
- Tagalog: paalam (pa-ah-lam), bye (by)
- Ukrainian: до побачення (do pobachennya)
- Basque: agur (ah-goor)
- German: Auf Wiedersehen (owf vee-der-zay-en)
- Dutch: dag (dahg)
- Polish: do widzenia (doh veed-zen-yah)
- Indonesian: sampai jumpa (sahm-pie joom-pah)
- Finnish: näkemiin (nah-keh-meen)
- Swedish: hej då (hey doah)
- Norwegian: ha det bra
- Turkish: hoşçakalın (hosh-cha-kah-luhn)
- Spanish: adiós (ah-dee-ohs)
- Italian: arrivederci (ah-ree-veh-der-chee), ciao (chow)
- Korean: 안녕 (annyeong)
- Russian: до свидания (do svidaniya)
- Hindi: नमस्ते (namaste)
- Greek: yasou (yah-soo)
- Danish: farvel (far-vel)
- Mandarin Chinese: 再见 (zàijiàn)
- Arabic: mae alsalama (مع السلامة)
- Japanese: さようなら (sayōnara)
- Gaelic: slán (slawn)
- Portuguese: adeus (ah-deh-oos)
- Swahili: kwaheri (kwah-heh-ree)
- Maori: kia koa (kee-ah koh-ah)
- Quechua: tupanchikkama (too-pahn-chee-kah-mah)
- Esperanto: adiaŭ (ah-dee-ow)
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