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How do you do?

Catalan Com va?
Chinese (transliterated) Ni hao ma?
Croatian Kako ste?
Danish Goddag (=Good day)
Dutch Hoe gaat net?
French Comment allez-vous?
German Wie geht es dir?/Wie geht es Ihnen?
Hebrew (transliterated) Ma shalomhah? (masc.)/Ma shlomeh? (fem.)
Hungarian Van szerencsém?
Italian Come sta?
Japanese (transliterated) Hajimemashite?
Korean (transliterated) Choum betget sumnida?
Lithuanian Sveiki (formal) /
Kaip einas (informal)?
Modern Greek (transliterated) Ti kanete?
Norwegian Hvordan hur dudet?
Persian Hal-e shoma chetoreh?
Polish Jak sie pan ma?
Portuguese Como está o Senhor/Senhora?
Russian (transliterated) Zdravstvuite!
Serbian (transliterated) Kako ste?/Drago mi je?
Spanish ¿Cómo está Usted?
Swedish Hur står det till?
Tagalog Kamusta kayó?
Turkish Memnun oldum?
Vietnamese Ban khoe khong?
Yiddish (transliterated) Vi gayt es aykh?

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