"Selamat malam, salam."

Translation: Good evening, greetings.

[KelpyPony]

I LOVE that this accepted, "Good evening. Peace." First sense of orientation in this lesson. I guess saying hi and bye has a lot of layers in Indonesian, huh?

[H9r1n24]

Hi, all. What is the difference in usage between selamat siang, selamat sore and selamat malam?

[yogastorow]

Hi Hiranx! From what I read on this site, the difference in usage between them is

• "Selamat pagi!" is used at 04:00 till 10:00
• "Selamat siang!" is used at 10:00 till 14:00
• "Selamat sore!" is used at 14:00 till 18:30
• "Selamat malam!" is used at 18:30 till 04:00
• "Selamat petang!" is used at 16:30 till 18:30, and it's used in a formal condition

Sorry for my bad English

[H9r1n24]

Hi yogastorow. Thank you very much for your comprehensive reply. Much appreciate it.

Your English is very good but please permit me to point out the one error I noticed, and that is that the time periods should have been in a "from xx:xx till/to xx:xx" format.
'At' is specific to a particular time e.g. "I get up at 06:00".

See also https://www.usingenglish.com/forum/threads/23552-From-to-till.

Hope this helps!

[HunterK721479]

From what ive learned is siang and sore mean good afternoon, while malam is evening/night. And selamat pagi is good morning. Hope that helps.

[katiamclean68]

Hi having lived in Indonesia siang was used for the middle of the day (lunch) sore for more afternoon/early evening (tea) and malam for night (dinner) but I noticed on this app they used sore for night when greeting. So perhaps malam is only used for night - when departing. But this use may be colloquial to regions.

[bambiewitch]

Should 'goodnight' also be correct? I was under the impression that it could be either at the time (malam during night)

[HunterK721479]

Pagi=morning
Sore/siang=afternoon
Malam=night/evening.

[DavidLamb53073]

"Good night" is counted as correct, but for some reason, the perfectly good English "Goodnight", although still counted as correct, is marked as having missed a space!

[christine722010]

Thata what I typed isnt it?

[MikeWilby]

so why is greetings, good evening wrong?

[katiamclean68]

In English nobody really says Greetings (unless they were not native speakers or thespians) they would normally say Hello

Also malam is evening- is it not used on greeting just on departure?

[Anggun413673]

Selamat malam itu aturan good night