"Noapte bună, Duolingo!"

Translation: Good night, Duolingo!

[ryannichols7]

me at 4am after I work my way through a lot of this course on the first night it's released.

[Panchete1]

Duol...what?? mmmpfff.... Not sure if I'll remember this romanian word. :P

[LuisEscami79463]

Me neither! Jajaja

[FaizalZahid]

I love how the name "Duolingo" is in orange, as if it is a new word! No offense, Duo! XD

P/S: Orange is the new black!

[Cjnfl]

Lol

[JewishPolyglot]

Let's do a #RomanceComparison:
Italian - buona notte;
Spanish - buenas noches;
French - bonne nuit;
Portuguese - boa noite;
Romanian - noapte bună?!

[woozlification]

Not that I know much about Slavic languages, but isn't good night an odd one out for them, too? I seem to remember in Bulgarian good night was Lake Nosht, but the others were variants of Dobre, and you have a similar thing with Russian, where you have Dobre this and that, but for Good night, you have Spakoy nay Noche (please excuse the Latin-alphabet rendition of the Cyrillic). Romanian is interesting as a language because it seems to have a Romance core, but, being an island in a sea of other languages, it seems to have absorbed not only vocab, but other bits of the other languages. Interesting!

[MateoMalave4]

In polish it's dobra nocte or something like that

[Kamil321378]

dobranoc yeah

[nitedemon]

Any interesting stories behind the reason why "noapte bună" is the only one out of all the similar greetings to have the adjective come after the noun?

[colloquicoley]

In short, it has to do with a combination of differences in syntax and geographical influence (i.e. the influence Serbian, Greek or Turkish may have had on Romanian. Try this site to see if it helps:

http://linguistics.stackexchange.com/questions/19111/why-is-the-romanian-syntax-for-good-night-opposite-to-all-the-other-romance-l

[ratherastory]

I'd like to know too.

[EmilyDavan1]

I think that, as Momzi said below, "noapte buna" is more of a wish for someone else.

So whereas "buna ziua" is simply "good day," "noapte buna" is more like "have a good night" (minus the "have a").

To extend this, if you were to say "Have a good day," you would say "sa ai o zi buna."

(Also, sorry about all the missing accents. My keyboard is dumb)

[Baykush7]

I wonder what "Duolingo" means!

[Loltiker]

I think it means learning languages

[SamiaELSharkawy]

i put it on google detect language it meant in chinese "oh overpayment"

[prophecyte]

I got "Multi-collar oh", again in Chinese

[Josh322147]

It means two languages

[janey_p]

How, exactly, is "Noapte bună" used? Is it a greeting (like in Spanish) or a farewell (like in German)?

[Momzi]

It is used more like a wish for the other person "I hope you have a good night", right before going to bed, or late enough that you presume that the other person goes to bed.

[InnaFan]

Duolingo is not an English word, is it? :D

[SamiaELSharkawy]

chinese

[Loltiker]

hi

[FakeDiamond]

And see you in the Morning Duolingo.

[alex65502]

Is it telling me to go to bed?

[Kamil321378]

HWHQH

[James534878]

So my question would be; in Spanish 'buenas noches' is more of a greeting, but it would sound wierd if you said good night in english as a greeting. How is it used in Romanian?