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- "Good day, how are you?"
"Good day, how are you?"
Translation:Guten Tag, wie geht es?
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genuine question: do people say "Good day" these days? (Personally, I'd equate "Guten Tag" with "Good afternoon", even though "Guten Tag" is used before noon as well. You occasionally get this kind of shifts in greetings over the time of day, e.g., "morning" in one language is only the time of getting up, in another it's the time before noon - you just have to memorise the times when you can use e.g. "the German 'Good afternoon'". On account of "Good afternoon" being the greeting in between "Good morning" and "Good evening", like "Guten Tag" is in German. Just my two cents.)
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To me, "Wie geht es?" (without "Ihnen/dir") seems a bit strange, because I'd always shorten it to "Wie geht's?" - unless I'm asking "How does that thing you're doing work?" or maybe "How is that work you're doing there coming on?".