LingoflyGreetings and goodbyes in Armenian
10 words in Armenian on the topic “greetings and goodbyes”: Բարև (barev) — hi, Բարև ձեզ (barev dzez) — hello, Բարի լույս (bari luys) — good morning, Բարի օր (bari or) — good afternoon. 10 words can be played from recordings.
10 words on the topic
- Բարևbarevhisounds like ba-REV, stress on the last syllable, as in almost every Armenian word
- Բարև ձեզbarev dzezhellodzez means 'to you': the polite greeting for strangers and elders; barev alone is for friends
- Բարի լույսbari luysgood morningbari — kind, luys — light: literally 'kind light'
- Բարի օրbari orgood afternoonthe same bari as in barev; or means day
- Բարի երեկոbari yerekogood eveningyereko — evening. Morning, day and evening all follow one pattern: bari + the time of day
- Ցտեսությունtstesut'yungoodbyefrom tesnel — to see; literally 'until seeing', the same build as 'until we meet again'
- Հաջողhajoghbyethe informal send-off between friends; at root it means 'successful'
- Ինչպե՞ս եսinchpes eshow are you?the little hook above a letter is the Armenian question mark: it sits on the stressed syllable of the asked word, not at the end of the phrase
- Ինչպե՞ս եքinchpes ekhow do you do?the ek form is the polite one, for elders and strangers; es is for your own circle
- Բարի գիշերbari gishergood nightthe same bari — kind — as in bari luys and bari yereko. It is said when parting to sleep; meeting in the evening calls for bari yereko
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How it sounds in a sentence
A word list is a blank. Conversation is made of sentences, and these are the ones the words fit into most often.
What is worth knowing about these words
Բարև (barev) — hi. Bari means kind, arev means sun — literally 'kind sun'. Sounds like ba-REV.
Բարև ձեզ (barev dzez) — hello. Dzez means 'to you': the polite greeting for strangers and elders; barev alone is for friends.
Բարի լույս (bari luys) — good morning. Bari — kind, luys — light: literally 'kind light'.
Բարի օր (bari or) — good afternoon. The same bari as in barev; or means day.
Test yourself
First by ear — the way you will meet the word in conversation. Click the speaker and pick the translation.
- What is this word?
It is Բարև (barev) — hi.
- What is this word?
It is Ինչպե՞ս ես (inchpes es) — how are you?
- What is this word?
It is Բարի երեկո (bari yereko) — good evening.
- What is this word?
It is Բարև ձեզ (barev dzez) — hello.
- What is this word?
It is Ինչպե՞ս եք (inchpes ek) — how do you do?
Now the other way around: recall the spelling from the meaning. That is harder, and therefore more useful.
- How do you say “hi” in Armenian?
bari means kind, arev means sun — literally 'kind sun'. Sounds like ba-REV.
- How do you say “how are you?” in Armenian?
the little hook above a letter is the Armenian question mark: it sits on the stressed syllable of the asked word, not at the end of the phrase
- How do you say “good evening” in Armenian?
yereko — evening. Morning, day and evening all follow one pattern: bari + the time of day
- How do you say “hello” in Armenian?
dzez means 'to you': the polite greeting for strangers and elders; barev alone is for friends
- How do you say “how do you do?” in Armenian?
the ek form is the polite one, for elders and strangers; es is for your own circle
How to learn the set instead of just reading it
Every conversation starts here, and so does every first impression: say hello in the local language and you stop being a stranger in about a second.
A list is read in a minute and forgotten in a day. What works: hide the translation, try to recall, get it wrong — and come back to the same words tomorrow.
- Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
- Study spread over days wins not only in experiments but in ordinary classrooms, with real students.checked many timesMawson & Kang, 2025, Behavioral Sciences 15(6):771 · 22 studies, d = 0.54 (confidence interval 0.31–0.77). The authors warn that individual studies disagree widely.
Frequently asked
How do you say “hi” in Armenian?
«Բարև» (barev), read “barev”. Sounds like ba-REV, stress on the last syllable, as in almost every Armenian word. It is one of 10 words in the set “greetings and goodbyes” — the rest are in the table above.
How many greetings do you need to start?
The whole set on this page is 10 words, but there is no need to start with all of it: the words you will need in the next few days are enough. Take them a few at a time — five to seven new ones per session.
Is there audio?
Yes, 10 words on this page can be played — click the speaker next to the word. The sound works on any phone, and nothing needs to be installed.