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