Croatian Greetings and Introductions

– Essential words and phrases to know –

Learn the essentials of Croatian easily with this vocabulary list that contains all the most basic words and phrases used in Croatian for greetings and Introductions, with their english translations. If you’re a beginner, it will come in handy to review or learn Croatian by yourself before traveling, or if you want to enrich and improve your Croatian vocabulary to better express yourself in writing and speaking!

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ENGLISH	CROATIAN
Hello	zdravo
Good morning!	Dobro jutro!
Good afternoon!	Dobar dan!
Hi	bok
Good evening	dobra večer
Good night	laku noć
Sleep well	lijepo spavaj
How are you?	Kako si?
I’m fine, thank you.	Dobro sam, hvala.
How about you?	A ti?
Nice to meet you.	Drago mi je.
Nice to meet you too.	Drago mi je.
Likewise	također
It’s good to see you.	Lijepo te je vidjeti.
Nice to see you again.	Lijepo te je ponovno vidjeti.
Pleased to meet you.	Drago mi je.
How nice to see you!	Kako te je lijepo vidjeti!
What’s up?	Što ima?
What brings you here?	Što vas dovodi ovdje?
When you’re leaving
Goodbye	Doviđenja
I hope we’ll meet again.	Nadam se da ćemo se opet sresti.
I’ve got to go.	Moram ići.
It was good meeting you.	Bilo je lijepo upoznati te.
It was great seeing you again.	Bilo je lijepo ponovno te vidjeti.
It was great to catch up!	Bilo je super nadoknaditi!
See you again sometime.	Vidimo se opet nekad.
See you in the morning	Vidimo se ujutro
See you later	Vidimo se kasnije
See you soon	Vidimo se uskoro
See you tomorrow	Vidimo se sutra
See you tonight	Vidimo se večeras
Sleep well	lijepo spavaj
Take care.	Čuvaj se.
Other greetings
Bless you	Blago tebi
Cheers!	Živjeli!
Farewell	Doviđenja
Good luck!	Sretno!
Talk to you soon	Čujemo se uskoro
Welcome	Dobrodošli
Well done!	Dobro napravljeno!

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