buenos días a todos
/bwenos dias a todos/from spelling rules
The Spanish phrase for "good morning everyone" is buenos días a todos.
This phrase is used to greet a group of people during the morning hours. In many social situations, you can drop the a todos and simply say buenos días to achieve the same effect of greeting a group.
What does it mean word for word?
The phrase buenos días a todos literally translates to "good days to all".
Which one should you use?
While buenos días a todos is the standard way to address a group, buenos días a todos y a todas is a more inclusive way to explicitly address both men and women. Additionally, Hola a todos, buenos días is a variation meaning "hello everyone, good morning".
How does it change in a sentence?
If the group being addressed consists entirely of women, you should use buenos días a todas instead of buenos días a todos.
Did you know?
- In many Spanish-speaking cultures, greeting every single person in a room individually is often considered more polite than using a collective greeting like buenos días a todos.
- Using buenos días can occasionally be used sarcastically in Spanish to point out that someone has woken up very late in the day.
- While buenos días is used for the morning, the phrases for 'good afternoon' (buenas tardes) and 'good night' (buenas noches) use the feminine adjective buenas.
Examples in context
- Buenos días a todos.Good morning, everyone.This sentence demonstrates how to use buenos días a todos.Tatoeba #527255 by Shishir, translation #22127 by CK
- Buenos días a todos, ¿cómo están?Good morning everyone, how are you?
- ¡Buenos días a todos en la oficina!Good morning everyone in the office!
Example conversation
Sofía starts a meeting with her colleagues.
- SofíaBuenos días a todos.Good morning everyone.
- DanielBuenos días, Sofía.Good morning, Sofia.
- Sofía¿Están listos para empezar?Are you ready to start?
- DanielSí, estamos listos.Yes, we are ready.
Sources
- IPA marked “from spelling rules” is derived from standard Spanish spelling, where Wiktionary gives none.
- Example sentences: Tatoeba CC BY 2.0 FR.
