Basic greetings: Greeting your neighbor

💬 Plural masculine form of bueno. In greetings like buenos días, Spanish uses the plural: literally "good days."

🇲🇽 On its own, buenos can sound incomplete. In Mexico, you'll usually hear the full greeting: buenos días.

💬 Día means "day"; días is plural. In buenos días, it works like "morning" in the full greeting.

🇲🇽 Morning greetings are very common in Mexico, even with shopkeepers, neighbors, and bus drivers.

💬 A standard morning greeting. Literally "good days," but it means "good morning."

🇲🇽 In Mexico, saying buenos días is a small act of friendliness and respect. People often greet before asking for anything.

💬 Vecino is masculine; vecina is feminine. It can be literal or a friendly way to address someone nearby.

🇲🇽 In many Mexican neighborhoods, calling someone vecino or vecina can sound warm and familiar, not just descriptive.

💬 Direct, friendly greeting. You can swap vecino for vecina depending on who you're talking to.

🇲🇽 This sounds natural in Mexico, especially in apartment buildings, small neighborhoods, or local markets where people recognize each other.

💬 Cómo with an accent is a question word: "how?" Tiny accent, big job.

🇲🇽 By itself, ¿Cómo? can also mean "Sorry?" or "What did you say?" if you didn't hear someone.

💬 From estar, used for states and conditions. Estás means "you are" for tú.

🇲🇽 In Mexico, tú is common in casual speech, but with strangers or elders you may hear está with usted forms instead.

💬 Uses estar because feelings and conditions are temporary. Literally: "How are you?"

🇲🇽 Very common and friendly in Mexico. With more formality, people often say ¿Cómo está?

💬 Muy means "very" and does not change form. Easy win: muy + adjective/adverb.

🇲🇽 You'll hear it all the time in Mexico: muy bien, muy rico, muy padre.