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hello, welcome, greetings, goodbye, farewell, best wishes, friend

Russian translation: Привет, добро пожаловать, поклоны, до свидания, прощайте, наилучшие пожелания, друг

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English term or phrase:hello, welcome, greetings, goodbye, farewell, best wishes, friend
Russian translation:Привет, добро пожаловать, поклоны, до свидания, прощайте, наилучшие пожелания, друг
Entered by: AYP

23:56 Jan 26, 2002
English to Russian translations [Non-PRO]
English term or phrase: hello, welcome, greetings, goodbye, farewell, best wishes, friend
I am having a small get together for a friend, she has one nanny leaving and another coming in and we are doing both parties at the same time, and I will simply have a board with all these words in different languages.
Ren�e
Привет, добро пожаловать, поклоны, до свидания, прощайте, наилучшие пожелания, друг
Explanation:
Hello – привет (privet);

Welcome – добро пожаловать (dobro pozhalovat’), милости просим (milosti prosim), пожалуйста (pozhalujsta) as “you are welcome” or “not at all”;

Greeting (sing.)– поклон (poklon), приветствие (privetsviie), поздравление (pozdravleniie):
to extend a greeting — приветствовать (privetstvovat’);

Greetings (pl.)– поклоны (poklony), приветствия (privetsviia), поздравления(pozdravleniia):
to exchange greetings — обмениваться поздравлениями (obmenivat’sia pozdravleniiami),
to extend, send greetings — посылать поздравления (posylat’ pozdravleniia),
cordial, friendly, sincere, warm, warmest greetings — сердечные поздравления (serdechnyie pozdravleniia),
official greetings — официальное поздравление (ofitsyal’noie pozdravleniie),
holiday, season's greetings — поздравления с праздником (pozdravleniia s prazdnikom);

Good-bye – до свидания (do svidaniia), прощайте (proschajte);

Farewell – прощайте (proschajte), в добрый путь (v dobryj put’), до свидания (do svidaniia);

Best wishes – наилучшие пожелания (nailuchshyie pozhelaniia);

Friend – друг (drug), приятель (priiatel’), товарищ (tovarisch).
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AYP
Local time: 07:12
Grading comment
Thank you, this was very helpful.
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Summary of answers provided
5 +7привет, добро пожаловать*, поздравляем**, до-свидания or прощай, всего наилучшего, друг***
Vladimir Dubisskiy
5 +5Привет, Добро пожаловать, Приветствуем, Прощай, В добрый путь, С наилучшими пожеланиями, друг
Natasha Metzger
5 +1Здравствуйте, добро пожаловать, приветствуем, до свиданья, прощайте, c наилучшими пожеланиями, друг
MaximS
5 -1Привет, добро пожаловать, поклоны, до свидания, прощайте, наилучшие пожелания, друг
AYP


  

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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +7
привет, добро пожаловать*, поздравляем**, до-свидания or прощай, всего наилучшего, друг***


Explanation:
* or, when answering smb's "thank you" it will be "пожалуйста"

**or it can be a variant of hello = "здравствуйте"

*** the above is ok for male friend, for a female it will be "подруга"

Vladimir Dubisskiy
United States
Local time: 23:12
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian, Native in UkrainianUkrainian
PRO pts in pair: 2068

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Araksia Sarkisian: I just wanted to write it, the same...lol
16 mins
agree  Bakytbek
58 mins
agree  Katerina Warns
1 hr
neutral  MaximS: 'друг' can be used for both sexes
3 hrs
agree  Olga Simon
3 hrs
agree  Nelly (X)
4 hrs
agree  Valentinas & Halina Kulinic
1 day 6 hrs
agree  Galina Nielsen
1 day 8 hrs
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +5
Привет, Добро пожаловать, Приветствуем, Прощай, В добрый путь, С наилучшими пожеланиями, друг


Explanation:
Privet, Dobro pozhalovat, Privetstvuem, Proshay, V dobriy put, S nailuchshimi pozhelaniyami, drug.

Great idea! But rather than using all of the words, you may want to consider only using the following:

Приветствуем,Добро пожаловать!
Прощай, В добрый путь!
С наилучшими пожеланиями
Друзья
Druzya - friends

Good luck!


Natasha Metzger
United States
Local time: 00:12
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian
PRO pts in pair: 29

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Araksia Sarkisian
10 mins
  -> Thank You
agree  protolmach
39 mins
  -> Спасибо!
agree  Alexandra Tussing
17 hrs
  -> Thank you.
agree  Natalie Lyssova
1 day 9 hrs
  -> Cпасибо!
agree  Krem Brule: good to include transliteration as he may not be familiar with cyrilic
2 days 5 hrs
  -> Thank you.
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Здравствуйте, добро пожаловать, приветствуем, до свиданья, прощайте, c наилучшими пожеланиями, друг


Explanation:
Since it's meant for nannies, a polite form should be used: 'Здравствуйте', 'прощайте'.
As for 'friend' - 'друг' - a younger person shouldn't call an older person, especially a nanny, "подруга". That is more proper for age mates. Besides, it's quite OK to call a woman "друг" - e.g. "мой милый друг" like in friendly letters. It's showing respect.
Hope it helps

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Note added at 2002-01-27 06:13:50 (GMT)
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A small correction:
\'до свидания\' instead of \'до свиданья\'

MaximS
PRO pts in pair: 6

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Hadjismel
1 day 40 mins
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10 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): -1
Привет, добро пожаловать, поклоны, до свидания, прощайте, наилучшие пожелания, друг


Explanation:
Hello – привет (privet);

Welcome – добро пожаловать (dobro pozhalovat’), милости просим (milosti prosim), пожалуйста (pozhalujsta) as “you are welcome” or “not at all”;

Greeting (sing.)– поклон (poklon), приветствие (privetsviie), поздравление (pozdravleniie):
to extend a greeting — приветствовать (privetstvovat’);

Greetings (pl.)– поклоны (poklony), приветствия (privetsviia), поздравления(pozdravleniia):
to exchange greetings — обмениваться поздравлениями (obmenivat’sia pozdravleniiami),
to extend, send greetings — посылать поздравления (posylat’ pozdravleniia),
cordial, friendly, sincere, warm, warmest greetings — сердечные поздравления (serdechnyie pozdravleniia),
official greetings — официальное поздравление (ofitsyal’noie pozdravleniie),
holiday, season's greetings — поздравления с праздником (pozdravleniia s prazdnikom);

Good-bye – до свидания (do svidaniia), прощайте (proschajte);

Farewell – прощайте (proschajte), в добрый путь (v dobryj put’), до свидания (do svidaniia);

Best wishes – наилучшие пожелания (nailuchshyie pozhelaniia);

Friend – друг (drug), приятель (priiatel’), товарищ (tovarisch).


AYP
Local time: 07:12
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian
PRO pts in pair: 188
Grading comment
Thank you, this was very helpful.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  MaximS: 'поклоны' is hardly appropriate here. It would in the meaning "give my respects to smb", but that's not the case here.
3 hrs
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