24
Jan
09

Labdien!

Latvian for hello.

“Labdien!” means “Good day!” and is pronounced “Lab-DEE-an!”. It all gets a bit more complicated if you want to be less formal and say a simple “hi!”. The word is “Sveiki!”… if you’re saying hello to a group of people. If it’s just one friend, however, you’ll have to alter it slightly, to “Sveiks!”… oh, but wait a second…. that’s unless the one friend is a female rather than a male, in which case you’ll have to say “Sveika!”.

I think I’ll stick to “Labdien!”.


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