Good evening when does it start

It may be funny. The person may say "Good night" and look at their watch and laugh and say "or good morning! Here's another thing!

Do not leave somebody and say "good evening". Even if it is 10 PM, when you greet someone you greet them with "good evening" and when you leave you say "good night".

Good afternoon is tricky. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Thread starter riglos Start date Nov 8, Hi there! I suppose an hope I won't have to use "night" at all. Here's my assumption: Good morning:5 AM if the presentation starts at A.

However, if you meet someone at A. M Good night: 10 PM onwards only upon parting for the evening or when you go to sleep, in fact ,or say goodbye for the rest of the day Thanks you!!! Click to expand Here's another thing.

It may be funny. The person may say "Good night" and look at their watch and laugh and say "or good morning! Here's another thing! Even if it is 10 PM, when you greet someone you greet them with "good evening" and when you leave you say "good night". Good afternoon is tricky. Usually I don't hear good afternoon at all. If someone says it, it is usually 12pm - 4 pm. But I don't think it really matters. In America atleast, people just say "hey" or "what's up" haha.

I'd agree roughly with what you said originally. Good Morning is from when you wake up assuming you wake up before noon local time! Afterwards, I would say good evening. Good Evening becoming good night, well it's quite sketchy. I'd say the transition is probably comparable. I think really, the transition between the latter two can take place at any point between pm. TL, "good evening' and "good night" is easy. You use "good evening" to greet someone and "good night" to dismiss them.

It doesn't matter how late it is. English-Ireland top end. I can't find the previous thread on this topic. Ignore the clock. If it is before lunch, say good morning.

If it is after lunch, but before whatever kind of break happens between 4 and 7, say good afternoon. After that say good evening. Only say good night at the end if you said good evening at the beginning.

Sorry, Mara, I was assuming a typical UK conference schedule. That is a bit unlikely, but for this session I would indeed begin with Good evening. There is very little chance of any presentation beginning so late. If it did, I would still say Good evening. Good night is a parting. At the end of the presentation or when you leave a place gral : 'Good night' even if it's PM??? No, at that time of day good night would not be appropriate. Good evening would perhaps be OK.

More likely it would be a normal end of presentation statement like "Thank you for your attention. Good morning -- wake-up time until am Good afternoon -- pm until dinner, unless you eat later in the evening like many Europeans. If you said this at people might respond "goodbye" and turn away.

As you enter the home of a friend, you might say good night to someone leaving and good evening to your host assuming it isn't the sort of occasion where "wassup hussler" and "yo bitch" are appropriate. Good evening can be used to say hello or goodbye depending on the context. Good evening can be used to say hello once it gets dark outside and the time varies depending on the season. Good evening can be used to say goodbye usually just after it turns dark outside.

As per my knowledge and experience: good morning ; good afternoon ; good evening ; hello etc. Even if you are meeting a person at 10 p. This means it's a positive, well wishing statement, that's all. As somebody has pointed out already, when two people part company for the rest of the day, then " Good night " is the correct one. Any comment, please correct me if I am wrong. Similarly, dinner is not only for night food, it's just a meal, you can say it in the morning, afternoon or night. But, in this case, it's clear in the morning we say breakfast; afternoon-lunch, and dinner means night :.

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Morning moves into afternoon at noon. However, there are no absolute set times for when afternoon becomes evening usually sometime between 4pm and 6pm , when evening becomes night usually between 9pm and 10pm or when night moves into morning usually between 4am and 6am.

Although the sources appear to contradict each other, either could be considered correct because it is all down to the viewpoint of the individual. There are several more hours of night to go first! Say Good morning any time between getting up and noon. Say good afternoon any time between noon and 5pm Say good evening any time between 5pm and 9pm as a greeting.