"Καλησπέρα! Τι κάνεις;"

Translation: Good evening! How are you?

[Ungewitig_Wiht]

Ησπέρα (Ēspéra) sounds like "vesper" which is an old word for "evening" ("vespero" is also the normal Esperanto word for evening) so I got this right!

Are they related?

[mizinamo]

It's καλή + σπέρα, not καλ + ησπέρα. Though σπέρα isn't used alone nowadays as far as I know (replaced by βράδυ).

It's shortened from the Ancient Greek form εσπέρα, which had rough breathing (hespera).

EtymOnline says ( http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=vesper ) that the Latin word is indeed related to the Greek one.

[jaye16]

" εσπερινός" is the Greek word for "vespers', otherwise, it's not used in modern Greek.

[Fischer002]

Is a semicolon the Greek equivalent of a question mark?

[Andres.Campe]

is the ";" a question mark???

[mizinamo]

That's right; that's what a Greek question mark looks like.

[wiktorka234]

Can the first word translate to "good night" as well?

[mizinamo]

As a farewell phrase, "good night!" is Καληνύχτα!.

[kate284490]

So what exactly does τι κάνεις; mean? Like the individual words and so on

[mizinamo]

So what exactly does τι κάνεις; mean? Like the individual words and so on

Literally: "what do you do?" or "what are you doing?".

τι = what

κάνεις = you do, you are doing

But as a phrase, τι κάνεις; means "how are you?" -- it doesn't ask what you are doing right now but inquires after your health and general circumstances.

[CX948]

So how does one ask, "What are you doing?" The same phrase?

[jaye16]

Yes, they are the same.

[Dani747981]

I learned in school that καλησπέρα meant good afternoon and it was καλο βράδυ that meant good evening