{"id":2788,"date":"2013-05-23T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/?p=2788"},"modified":"2014-08-06T11:25:57","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T15:25:57","slug":"goodbye-in-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/goodbye-in-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye in English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So long, farewell\u2026no, wait, don\u2019t go yet I am just getting started!\u00a0 What I meant to say was \u201chello\u201d and \u201cwelcome\u201d to today\u2019s post about saying &#8220;goodbye!&#8221; To start out take a listen to this song from the classic American film<em> The Sound of Music<\/em> in which the children in the film are singing about saying goodbye\/good night. Listening to this song you will hear a number of different ways to say goodbye in English (and one in German \u2013 the movie is about a family in Austria after all!)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Sound of Music Soundtrack - 12 - So Long, Farewell\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UG9I752Mmdk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this song you heard \u201c<strong>so long<\/strong>\u201d and \u201c<strong>farewell<\/strong>,\u201d which are both nice, semi-formal ways of saying \u2018goodbye.\u2019 Another semi-formal way to say \u2018goodbye\u2019 is \u201c<strong>take care.<\/strong>\u201d All three of these ways of saying goodbye are good to use with a person you have recently met or don\u2019t know well. Below I have a list of informal and fun ways to say \u2018goodbye\u2019 to people you know a little better.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s take a look:<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cSee ya\u201d <\/strong>or<strong> \u201cSee you later\u201d <\/strong>or<strong> \u201cBye for now\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These are all ways of saying \u2018goodbye\u2019 to someone you expect to see again soon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cTake it easy.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is a nice way to say \u2018goodbye\u2019 while expressing the hope things go well and are not too hard for the person as they continue on. It is like saying, \u2018enjoy your life.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cHave a good one.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is essentially telling someone to \u2018have a good day\u2019 or that you hope they have a good day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cCatch you later.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is a relaxed and informal way of saying \u2018goodbye\u2019 to someone you expect to see again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cPeace out\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is a slang way of saying goodbye, that is sometimes, but not always, accompanied by someone showing a peace sign (using the pointer and middle fingers of their hand).<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cCheerio\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Americans think of this as a British way of saying \u2018goodbye,\u2019 but it can be used on both sides of the Atlantic or wherever you are in the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cToodle-oo\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is a silly or funny way to say \u2018goodbye.\u2019 By saying this you might make someone laugh :).<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cSee you later, alligator.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is a way of saying \u2018goodbye\u2019 that children often use, but so do adults who are saying \u2018goodbye\u2019 to children. This rhyming \u2018goodbye\u2019 expression is often followed by another rhyme. Which you can see in the following conversation:<\/p>\n<p>A:<em> \u201cI\u2019m going now.\u00a0 See you later, alligator!\u201d<\/em><em><br \/>\n<\/em>B:<em> \u201cIn a while, crocodile!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Alright, now it is time to say goodbye for real. I hope you enjoyed this post and will be back again soon to learn more English that you can use on an everyday basis. Don\u2019t forget to also check out all the resources available to you at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transparent.com\/\">www.transparent.com<\/a> as you continue on your English language learning journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"181\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2013\/05\/alligator.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><p>So long, farewell\u2026no, wait, don\u2019t go yet I am just getting started!\u00a0 What I meant to say was \u201chello\u201d and \u201cwelcome\u201d to today\u2019s post about saying &#8220;goodbye!&#8221; To start out take a listen to this song from the classic American film The Sound of Music in which the children in the film are singing about&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/goodbye-in-english\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":2789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[135139,135370],"tags":[273892,273895,273898,273889,273894,273896,273890,273891,273899,7587,273897],"class_list":["post-2788","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english-language","category-english-vocabulary","tag-bye-for-now","tag-catch-you-later","tag-cheerio","tag-goodbye-in-english","tag-have-a-good-one","tag-peace-out","tag-see-ya","tag-see-you-later","tag-see-you-later-alligator","tag-take-it-easy","tag-toodle-oo"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2788"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4275,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788\/revisions\/4275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}