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I am a native English speaker born and raised in the United States and a retired engineer living in a small Texas town about one hour north of Houston.
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Today we're going to be talking about ways to say goodbye in English and you've probably heard a lot of some of these expressions and it's very common and the first one is I've already said it, goodbye.
And this is very common but actually we like to shorten this word up and a lot of times we don't say, hey goodbye, goodbye.
We'll just say bye, bye when we're leaving somebody or we're getting ready to go or if somebody is getting ready to go, they are leaving or also they are departing.
That's another word.
We'll just say bye.
We also say bye -bye, bye -bye but a lot of times bye -bye will be used with children.
We'll say that to little kids when they're leaving, hey bye -bye, bye -bye.
See how it's kind of, we put the two words close together.
We don't say bye -bye, we say bye -bye, bye -bye so it's very quick.
The second way to say goodbye which is not really that common today, it was maybe common in the past is farewell and maybe you may hear this used in England or Europe, farewell but that's really not a word that you'll hear a lot here in the United States especially in spoken English.
You might read it a lot in books and see that written.
But also number three is the phrase take care, take care.
That means like, hey be careful when you leave here, take care of yourself.
That can be somewhat common, you're leaving a group, hey take care or also another way to say take care is say take it easy, take it easy.
So we don't say, hey take it easy, take it easy, now we say take it easy, take it easy.
See how that phrase, those three words are put together almost like in one word.
Take it easy, take it easy.
Number four is pretty common, you'll hear this a lot, it says have a good day, have a good day or have a good one, hey have a good one and one means a day, it's just replacing the word day with one, have a good one, like have a good day, have a good one, one like O -N -E one, have a good one or you can also say
have a nice day, have a nice day.
So those three are fairly common in English.
Number five is very common and a lot of times it'll be used among the younger generation, the younger people, they'll say hey later, later, that means like later on, it could be later on in the day or it could be later on in the week, later on in the month, it's kind of a broad general expression, later,
or also we'll say hey see you later, see you later, but I want to say a lot of times we don't say you, we say yeah, yeah, so instead of saying see you later, we say see you later, see yeah, here it's yeah instead of you, yeah, see you later, see you later, or I'll see you later, I'll see you later,
or see ya, see ya, instead of see you, see ya, see ya, or also we'll say talk to you later, talk to you later, I'll get with you later, we can talk some other time, we can talk some other time, or this is a very common really informal way to say goodbye, we'll say catch ya later, catch, c -a -t -c -h, like
to catch something, we'll say catch ya later, catch you later, but again we don't say you a lot, we'll say yeah, so we'll say catch ya later, catch ya, so that's really put together, catch ya, catch ya later, I'll catch ya later, I'll catch up with you later some other time.
Number six is so long, so long, that's not very common but that was used maybe more in the older days or maybe you might hear that in in other countries, but hey, so long, so long.
Number seven, which is fairly common in informal speech, we'll say hey, I have to get going, I have to get going, I have to get going, it means I need to leave, but instead of have to, a lot of times we'll say have to, have to, like h -a -f -t -a, so I have to get going, I have to get going, I need to go,
or I gotta get going, instead of I got to get going, we say gotta, gotta, I gotta get going, I gotta get going, I really need to leave, I really need to go, or we can also say I gotta go, I gotta go, or I gotta go now, I gotta go now, I have to go, I have to go.
Another one is I gotta take off, I gotta take off means I gotta leave, I gotta take off, or another one means I gotta leave is I gotta head out, I gotta head out, head out, like head out, I gotta go, or also we'll say I gotta run, hey, I gotta run, that means I gotta leave, I gotta go quickly, I gotta run,
so a lot of times we'll use these phrases in number seven along with other words for goodbye, like I gotta go, see you later, we'll combine those two expressions together, so I gotta go, see you later, or I gotta go, later, I gotta go, later.
Number eight is we use the word until and then you fill in after that with a time period, like hey, until next time, until next time, or maybe if you're going to see the person tomorrow will say, hey, until tomorrow, until tomorrow, or maybe until next week, I'll see you next week, I'll see you next
week, I'll see you next week, or I'll see you Monday, I'll see you Monday, hey, bye, I'll see you Monday, so you can add by and then another expression that's, like I said, it's very common to combine these expressions together.
So number nine, maybe you saw somebody and you saw them again, you don't really see them very often, maybe your relative visited you from another country and they're leaving and you can say, it was nice to see you again, it was nice to see you again, it was nice to see you again, but remember you goes,
yeah, it was nice to see you again, or it was nice seeing you again, it was nice seeing you again, or just it was nice seeing you, hey, it was nice seeing you, hey, goodbye, or have a good trip, it was nice seeing you.
In the evening when it's getting late or at nighttime, a lot of times when people are leaving each other, they'll say, hey, good night, good night, or have a good evening, have a good evening, we don't say evening, but have a good evening.
And the last one, number 11, and this may be the first one is used a lot with younger kids or young people, they'll say, I'm out of here, but instead of saying out of, we change that to outa, out, outa, so they'll say, I'm out of here, that means I'm going, I'm leaving, I'm out of here, or I'm leaving,
and we talked about this in another video, instead of saying leaving, a lot of times we'll drop the G, we leave the G and just say leaving, hey, I'm leaving, I'm leaving, or instead of saying I'm going, we say, hey, I'm going, I'm going, I'm leaving, so I'm out of here, but outa is a word that we use
very frequently to say, instead of saying out of, we'll say outa, for example, if you like to drink milk, and you say, we say we ran out of milk, you have no more milk in the house, you will, maybe the husband will tell the wife, hey, we're out of milk, we're out of milk, that means we don't have any
more milk, we're out of milk, or maybe you're driving your car, and you run out of gas, you can say, hey, we're out of gas, we're out of gas, so again, outa is a very common expression, so those are the most common ways of saying goodbye in English.
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