"Good morning and good night."
Translation:Dzień dobry i dobranoc.
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Just out of curiosity, and as a lover of etymology, is there a known or accepted reason why "dobranoc" became one word? Or was it never two separate words?
If you (and anyone else) still want to know, you should use Wiktionary for the etymology for any word.
Yeah, but wiktionary would say from where it came, for example, something like Old Slavic word for Good Night then something in glagolitic like [ДьобраѢ Нъоћ] (I've made this up :D ) but it wouldn't say how it became like that , thought it would be difficult to expect them to guess who connected it first :-)
"Dobry dzień" would mean literally that the day is good, rather than being a greeting. While you would probably be understood, it's not the phrase you should use.
It's not grammatically wrong, but it's not the usual idiom. It will sound odd.
Yes, but Polish doesn't have a specific greeting for morning. You just use the same greeting for any daytime address. So "dzień dobry" can be used where English would use "good morning," "good afternoon," or "good day."
Does anyone else think that it stunts peoples learning if the first letter of the option word is capital? It means that it is telling us which word to use first, which I believe makes it more of a cheaty way to learn
Is it okay if I say dobry wieczor?(sorry for not writing properly my keyboard does not have polish letters)
"i" is used in sentences such as 'I saw two blue cars and five red trucks".
"a" is used in sentences such as 'I saw two blue cars, and my wife saw five red trucks".
"i" pretty much includes more items, whereas "a" introduces a second statement within a sentence.
Yu can use "Good day!" for "Good morning!" but you can't translate it that way.