Italian Greetings: English to Italian

If you have aspirations of greeting someone in Italian, then you're going to need to learn a few basic Italian greetings.

Luckily, this page can teach you such greetings - like hellos and goodbyes, plus the timely greetings of good morning, good day, good afternoon, good evening, and good night.

Note: Words in bold added during the last update. You can also view this list of greetings from Italian to English.

Hellos (English to Italian):

Hello ➔ Ciao (Informal)

Hi ➔ Ciao (Informal)

Hello ➔ Salve (Formal)

Hi everyone ➔ Ciao a tutti

When answering the phone, you'd say... ➔ Pronto (Lit. Ready)

Timely Greetings (English to Italian):

Good morning ➔ Buon giorno

Good day ➔ Buon giorno

Good afternoon ➔ Buon pomeriggio

Good evening ➔ Buona sera

Good night ➔ Buona notte

Goodbyes (English to Italian):

Goodbye ➔ Arrivederci

Goodbye ➔ Arrivederla (Formal)

Bye ➔ Ciao (Informal)

Bye bye ➔ Ciao ciao

See you soon ➔ A presto

See you later ➔ A dopo

See you tomorrow ➔ A domani

*Greetings last updated: May 10, 2018.

The Fine Print

I don't speak Italian myself, so there could be mistakes in the translations. Most of what is here is user-submitted, but I do try to check for accuracy and make corrections as I can. Thanks for your understanding.