Saludo que se usa al despedirse de alguien.
A casual word said when parting.
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¡Chao, nos vemos mañana! — Bye, see you tomorrow!
¡Chao, gracias por todo! — Bye, thanks for everything!
Les dije chao a mis compañeros y salí. — I said bye to my colleagues and left.
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Download the app for free Spanish vocabulary testBorrowed from Italian ciao, but it does not work the way ciao does. In Italian ciao greets on arrival and on leaving; in Spanish chao is only for parting, and you cannot say hello with it. English borrowed ciao too, and uses it exactly as Spanish does — on the way out only.
The spelling shifts by region: chao in Spain and most of Latin America, chau in Argentina and Uruguay, sometimes the original ciao. The word is informal; to a boss or in a letter you write hasta luego.
adiós goodbye
Heavier and more final. In conversation adiós sounds close to farewell.
hola hello
Italian ciao does both jobs; Spanish chao does only the second, and hola takes the first.
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