Greeting words

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Aug 17, 2011 06:08
Mein Freund schrieb "nice wishes" am Ende des Email.
Wie es in Deutsch sagen?
I am wondering because my English friends don't say "nice wishes", it's "best wishes" or "lots of wishes". Is the greeting word in German "nice wishes" if you translate?
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sindergi
Aug 17, 2011 07:07
  • Mein Freund schrieb "nice wishes" am Ende des Email.

  • Mein Freund schrieb "nice wishes" am Ende deｒ Email. "Mein Freund" =　彼氏 "Ein Freund"=友達

 
  • Wie es in Deutsch sagen?

  • Wie kann ich es in Deutsch sagen?

 

"Viele Grüße" <-neutral
"Liebe Grüße" <-familiar

"Nice wishes" sounds a little bit odd to me, even if i translate it into german.

Thank you for your correction!

 
Aug 18, 2011 07:52 Madoka
  • Thank you very much! So my case I had to say Ein Freund...but can I ask you a new question? If a friend you want to talk about is someone who is not boyfriend or girlfriend yet but if that is someone who you are dating or have romantic time then which word do you use??? And in Japanese often we use different word for male friend and female friend, do you have difference? Or friend is both Ein Freund for male and female?

 
Aug 18, 2011 08:07 sindergi
  • I think for this kind of situation we dont really have a special word for. Maybe you can use "Liebhaber" (male) "Liebhaberin" (female), but we are using these kind of words for the word "lover" - so german people will think that your cheating on your boyfriend with your "Liebhaber".

    For "normal" friends, we have two words.
    1) ein Freund = normally a male friend, but sometimes it could mean both, a female and a male friend. For example : "Das wichtigste im Leben sind Freunde" <- "the most important thing in life are friends."
    In this case it means both, female and male friends. But like i said before, normally "ein Freund" means a male friend.

    2) eine Freundin = its always for a female friend
danieinjp
Aug 17, 2011 17:20
  • Mein Freund schrieb "nice wishes" am Ende des Email.

  • Mein Freund schrieb "nice wishes" am Ende des E-Mails/ der E-Mail. (どちらでもいいんです！ どうぞ比較してください: http://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/E_Mail/)

 
  • Wie es in Deutsch sagen?

  • natürlicher: Wie kann ich das in Deutsch sagen? / hochdeutsch: Wie sagt man dazu in Deutsch?

 

man sieht auch oft: LG,... (Liebe Grüße, ...) oder GlG, ... (ganz liebe Grüße, ...) aber auch VlG, ... (viele liebe Grüße, ...)

Thank you for your correction!

 
Aug 18, 2011 07:54 Madoka
  • Thank you! He is ot my boyfriend so I had to say Ein Freund, in this case which one is the best word to end a message???
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