Meanings
phrase
alternative colloquial rare s'you later
- idiomaticA phrase used at parting, and not necessarily implying that the person being addressed will be seen later by the speaker.
Synonyms: see you around, goodbye, be seeing you, cul8r
Synonyms & antonyms
phraseA phrase used at parting, and not necessarily implying that the person being addressed will be seen later by the speaker.
Origin
Ellipsis of I will see you later or I hope to see you later.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Afrikaans sien jou later
- sien jou latergoodbye
Arabic إِلَى اللِّقَاء, أَرَاكَ لَاحِقًا
- إِلَى اللِّقَاء (ʔilā l-liqāʔ)goodbye
- أَرَاكَ لَاحِقًا (ʔarāka lāḥiqan)goodbye
- إِلَى اللِّقَاء قَرِيبًا (ʔilā l-liqāʔ qarīban)goodbye
Basque gero arte
- gero artegoodbye
Bulgarian до ско́ро
- до ско́ро (do skóro)goodbye
Catalan fins ara, fins després
- fins aragoodbye
- fins desprésgoodbye
Chinese Mandarin 再會 /再会, 拜拜
- 再會 /再会 (zàihuì)goodbye
- 拜拜 (bàibài, bāibái, báibái)goodbye
- 回見 /回见 (huíjiàn)goodbye
Czech zatím, na shledanou
- zatímgoodbye
- na shledanougoodbye
- ahojgoodbye
Danish vi ses, ses senere
- vi sesgoodbye
- ses seneregoodbye
- vi ses seneregoodbye
Dutch tot straks, tot later
- tot straksgoodbye
- tot latergoodbye
- tot zogoodbye
- zie je latergoodbye
- latergoodbye
- tot binnenkortgoodbye
Esperanto ĝis baldaŭ ĝis la revido
- ĝis baldaŭ ĝis la revidogoodbye
Estonian nägudeni, varsti näeme
- nägudenigoodbye
- varsti näemegoodbye
Finnish näkemiin, heippa
- näkemiingoodbye
- heippagoodbye
- näkemisiingoodbye
- hei heigoodbye
French à plus tard, à bientôt
- à plus tardgoodbye
- à bientôtgoodbye
- à la prochainegoodbye
- à tout à l'heuregoodbye
- au revoirgoodbye
German auf Wiedersehen, bis später
- auf Wiedersehengoodbye
- bis spätergoodbye
- tschüssgoodbye
- man sieht sichgoodbye
Greek τα λέμε, γεια χαρά
- τα λέμε (ta léme)goodbye
- γεια χαρά (geia chará)goodbye
- γεια (geia)goodbye
Hebrew לְהִתְרָאוֹת
- לְהִתְרָאוֹת (lehitraót)goodbye
Hindi बाद में मिलेंगे, फिर मिलते हैं
- बाद में मिलेंगे (bād mẽ mileṅge)goodbye
- फिर मिलते हैं (phir milte ha͠i)goodbye
- फिर मिलेंगे (phir mileṅge)goodbye
Hungarian viszlát
- viszlátgoodbye
Icelandic sjáumst seinna
- sjáumst seinnagoodbye
Indonesian sampaijumpa (ber), sampai nanti
- sampaijumpa (ber) (lagi)goodbye
- sampai nantigoodbye
Italian a più tardi, a dopo
- a più tardigoodbye
- a dopogoodbye
- si rivedegoodbye
Japanese また後で, バイバイ
- また後で (mata ato de)goodbye
- バイバイ (baibai)goodbye
- では (dewa)goodbye
- じゃgoodbye
- じゃあまたね (jā mata ne)goodbye
- ではまた (dewa mata)goodbye
- またね (mata ne)goodbye
- 行ってきます (itte kimasu)goodbye
- いってらっしゃい (itterasshai)goodbye
Korean 안녕하세요, 안녕
- 안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo)goodbye
- 안녕 (annyeong)goodbye
- 잘 있어 (jal isseo)goodbye
- 잘 가 (jal ga)goodbye
- 또 뵙겠읍니다 (tto boepgesseumnida)goodbye
- 안녕히 계십시오 (annyeonghi gyesipsio)goodbye
- 안녕히 가십시오 (annyeonghi gasipsio)goodbye
- 또 봐요 (tto bwayo)goodbye
Malay jumpa lagi
- jumpa lagigoodbye
Norwegian Bokmål vi ses, ses senere
- vi sesgoodbye
- ses seneregoodbye
- vi ses seneregoodbye
Persian بعداً میبینمت, به امید دیدار
- بعداً میبینمت (ba'dan mi-binamet)goodbye
- به امید دیدار (be omid-e didâr)goodbye
Polish do zobaczenia, na razie
- do zobaczeniagoodbye
- na raziegoodbye
- cześćgoodbye
- naragoodbye
- pagoodbye
- pa pagoodbye
- do zobaczenia późniejgoodbye
Portuguese até logo, até mais ver
- até logogoodbye
- até mais vergoodbye
- até maisgoodbye
- falougoodbye
- te vejo mais tardegoodbye
Romanian pe mai târziu
- pe mai târziugoodbye
Russian уви́димся по́зже, уви́димся
- уви́димся по́зже (uvídimsja pózže)goodbye
- уви́димся (uvídimsja)goodbye
- до встре́чи (do vstréči)goodbye
- пока́ (poká)goodbye
- бай-ба́й (baj-báj)goodbye
- до свида́ния (do svidánija)goodbye
- до ско́рой встре́чи (do skóroj vstréči)goodbye
- ча́о (čáo)goodbye
Scottish Gaelic chì mi a-rithist thu
- chì mi a-rithist thugoodbye
Slovak dovidenia, ahoj
- dovideniagoodbye
- ahojgoodbye
Spanish hasta luego, nos vemos
- hasta luegogoodbye
- nos vemosgoodbye
- nos veremosgoodbye
- nos vemos prontogoodbye
- nos estamos viendogoodbye
- hasta la próximagoodbye
Swahili tuonane baadaye
- tuonane baadayegoodbye
Swedish vi ses, ses senare
- vi sesgoodbye
- ses senaregoodbye
- vi ses senaregoodbye
Thai สวัสดี, แล้วเจอกัน
- สวัสดี (sà-wàt-dii)goodbye
- แล้วเจอกันgoodbye
- เจอกันใหม่goodbye
- แล้วพบกันใหม่goodbye
Turkish görüşmek üzere, görüşürüz
- görüşmek üzeregoodbye
- görüşürüzgoodbye
Ukrainian поба́чимося пізні́ше, поба́чимося
- поба́чимося пізні́ше (pobáčymosja pizníše)goodbye
- поба́чимося (pobáčymosja)goodbye
- до зу́стрічі (do zústriči)goodbye
- до поба́чення (do pobáčennja)goodbye
Urdu پھر ملینگے
- پھر ملینگے (phir milēṅgē)goodbye
Vietnamese gặp lại sau nhé, hẹn gặp lại
- gặp lại sau nhégoodbye
- hẹn gặp lạigoodbye
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