Greetings and salutations!!

Goededag!!

There is no shortage of greetings in the Dutch language, and every conversation is to be bookended with some form of hello and goodbye.

Dag - literally means day but can be used as both hello and goodbye

tot <insert word here> -- (these are all ways of saying goodbye) tot ziens, tot morgen (until tomorrow), tot <day of the week>, tot <insert time of day e.g. middag and avond: until this afternoon or until this evening>, tot later, tot straks (see you later -- no idea how this is different than tot later)

doei

doei doei

hoie -- hi

hallo

goededag -- good day

goedenmorgen -- good morning
(there is an abbreviation of this that people often use which is simply "morgen", except, technically, "morgen" by itself means "tomorrow", "ochtend" means "morning", so....)

goedenmiddag --  good afternoon

goedeavond -- good evening

(I cannot keep straight when the "n" is included!!)

Fijne <time> -- these are ways of saying "have a good..." fijne avond, fijne dag, fijne weekend...

I'm sure there are a 1000 others I'm omitting, but you get the point.

You can be as rude as hell at any point in time between these bookends and that's ok, but YOU MUST INCLUDE THE BOOKENDS OR YOU ARE RUDE!! Clear as mud, right?

So, for now, I'll say "doei doei"!