Basic Social Encounters
Table of contents
- 1 Simple greetings
- 2 General greeting
- 3 Greetings for various times of the day
- 4 Greeting a person you haven’t seen in a long time
- 5 Welcoming someone who has returned
1 Simple greetings
- Hi!
- Hello!
- Hello there!
- Howdy!
- Hey!
- Yo! (slang)
2 General greeting
- How are you?
- How’s it going?
- How’s it been?
- How is everything?
- How’s everything?
- How have you been?
- How have you been?
- How’ve you been?
- How you been? (informal)
- How’s tricks? (informal)
- What have you been up to?
- What’s new? (informal)
- What’s up? (informal)
- Wusup? / Wassup? (slang)
- What’s happening? (slang) What’s going on? (slang)
3 Greetings for various times of the day
- Good morning.
- Morning.
- Mornin’. (informal)
- How are you this bright morning?
- Good afternoon.
- Afternoon.
- Good evening.
- Evening
4 Greeting a person you haven’t seen in a long time
- I haven’t seen you in years!
- Long time no see! (informal) I haven’t seen you in an age!
- I haven’t seen you in a month of Sundays!
a month of Sundays = a long time
5 Welcoming someone who has returned
- Welcome back!
- Welcome back, stranger!
- Long time no see! (cliché) Where were you?
- Where have you been?
- Where did you go?