How to Say ‘Good morning.’ in German
Guten Morgen.
GOO-ten MOR-gen
[GOO-ten MOR-gen]
🇩🇪 In Germany: [Guten Morgen] is the normal polite greeting in service situations in Germany, including airport counters. You can use it even if you speak no further German.
Phrase Breakdown
Guten
[GOO-ten]
good
Adjective form used before masculine nouns in common greetings.
Guten Morgen sagt der Mitarbeiter am Schalter.
The employee at the counter says good morning.
Morgen
[MOR-gen]
morning
Used in the greeting 'Guten Morgen' to mean the morning time of day.
Morgen beginnt mein Flug sehr früh.
My flight starts very early in the morning.
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