Basic greetings: Greeting your neighbor

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

🇪🇸 A cheerful Buenos on its own is uncommon in Spain; people usually say the full Buenos días.

💬 Día means "day," and días is plural. In Buenos días, it works like "morning" in English.

🇪🇸 Morning greetings are big in Spain—perfect for the bakery, lift, or corner café.

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

🇪🇸 In Spain, saying Buenos días to shop staff, neighbors, or strangers in small spaces feels polite and natural.

💬 Vecino is masculine singular. For a female neighbor, say vecina.

🇪🇸 Knowing your vecinos matters in Spain—apartment-building life is a whole mini social world.

💬 Direct and friendly. If speaking to a woman, use Buenos días, vecina.

🇪🇸 This sounds warm and local, especially in apartment buildings or small towns.

💬 Qué often means "what," but in expressions like ¿Qué tal? it helps form "how…?" questions.

🇪🇸 That accent mark matters: qué is the question form.

💬 Tal by itself can mean "such" or "kind of," but in ¿Qué tal? it forms a fixed expression.

🇪🇸 Think of ¿Qué tal? as Spain's super-useful all-round social phrase.

💬 A very common informal greeting. It can mean "How are you?" or "How's it going?"

🇪🇸 In Spain this is everywhere—casual, friendly, and less formal than ¿Cómo está usted?

💬 Muy intensifies adjectives and adverbs: muy bien = "very well."

🇪🇸 Tiny word, big power—Spanish uses muy all the time.