Gruß am frühen Teil des Tages.
A greeting used in the early part of the day.
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Guten Morgen, hast du gut geschlafen? — Good morning, did you sleep well?
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Download the app for free German vocabulary testThe -en ending is not decoration: the phrase is shortened from ich wünsche Ihnen einen guten Morgen, “I wish you a good morning”, and the accusative case survived the cut. Same for Guten Tag and Guten Abend — but Gute Nacht, because Nacht is feminine.
German draws the lines by the clock more strictly than English does: Guten Morgen until about eleven, Guten Tag after that. Gute Nacht is only ever a parting, never a greeting. In speech it shortens to Morgen!, and in the north people say Moin at any hour of the day.
Morgen morning — and tomorrow
Capitalised, der Morgen is the morning; lower case, morgen is tomorrow. Only the capital tells them apart in writing.
Hallo hello
Neutral and unattached to any hour.
gut good
The adjective itself. In the greeting it stands in the accusative — hence guten — because the sentence is a shortened wish.
tschüss bye
The counterpart on the way out, at the same informal level.
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