Use sveiki as the broad, polite Latvian hello. For one close male friend sveiks is more personal, for one close female friend sveika is more personal, and for a clear goodbye atā or uz redzēšanos is usually clearer.
Use sveiki as the broad, polite Latvian hello. For one close male friend sveiks is more personal, for one close female friend sveika is more personal, and for a clear goodbye atā or uz redzēšanos is usually clearer.
Sveikus! wrongly declines the fixed greeting, and sveiki is sometimes forced into verb frames where sveicinu or pasveicini is needed.
From Latvian sveiks, meaning safe, sound, or healthy, used as a wish of well-being in greeting and parting formulas. Sveiki is the plural or general form that has become a common polite interjection.