The first post!

This is a greeting between people who know each other well (but don’t have to be necessarily friends). In a literary form you may encounter živijo, but only in writing (perhaps in books or in an email from someone who wants to write in a “proper” Slovenian). You can use it both for “hello” and “goodbye”.

Some other informal forms regularly used:

• zdravo – hello and goodbye (slightly more formal, I guess)
• čao – hello (and especially) goodbye (informal, from Italian)
• adijo – goodbye (slightly formal, from French)
• se vidiva / vidimo – see you (dual) / see you (plural) (very informal)

And formal forms:

• dobro jutro – good morning
• dober dan / večer – good day / evening
• lahko noč – good night
• pozdravljeni – hello
• nasvidenje – goodbye (lit. until the next time)
• zbogom – goodbye (lit. with God)

Examples:

Živjo Luka, kako si?
(Hi Luka, how are you?)

OK, sedaj moram oditi. Živjo!
(OK, I have to leave now. Bye!)