Gruß an jemanden, den man lange nicht traf.
Greeting for someone you have not met in a while.
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Hallo Peter, lange nicht gesehen! — Hi Peter, long time no see!
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Download the app for free German vocabulary testUnlike the English phrase it copies, the German one is perfectly grammatical. Lange nicht gesehen is simply the past participle with the auxiliary dropped, the way German drops it in headlines and greetings; the full sentence is wir haben uns lange nicht gesehen.
So where long time no see survives as fossilised pidgin, the German version is ordinary ellipsis and can be expanded at will. It is a greeting only — in the middle of a conversation it does not occur, exactly as in English.
lange her long ago
About the interval itself: das ist lange her, “that was a long time ago”.
treffen to meet
Arranged or for the first time. Lange nicht gesehen is for running into an old acquaintance.
na? well?
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