HOW DO YOU DO?

  

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HOW DO YOU DO?

Specialty Definition: HOW DO YOU DO?

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Literature

How Do You Do? (See Do.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Usage: HOW DO YOU DO?

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Screenplays

How do you do? (Roman Holiday; writing credit: Ian McLellan Hunter)

How do you do? I'm Captain Feeny. (Barry Lyndon; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: HOW DO YOU DO?

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A Christmas Carol

Dickens, Charles

How do you do? I hope you succeeded yesterday.

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Modern Translation: HOW DO YOU DO?

Language Translations for "HOW DO YOU DO?"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

hoe gaan dit met u? (how, how are you?). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏كيف حالك؟ (how are you getting on?, how are you?), ‏كويس (good for you), ‏زيك. (various references)

   

Catalan

  

com est vostè? (how are you?). (various references)

   

Czech

  

tìší mì?, tìší mì, jak se máte? (how are you doing?, how are you getting on?, how are you?), dobrý den!. (various references)

   

Danish

  

hvordan har De det? (how are you?). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

hoe maakt u het? (how are you?), hoe gaat het? (how are you?), hoe gaat het ermee? (how are you?). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

kiel vi fartas? (how are you?). (various references)

   

French

  

salut!, comment allez-vous? (how are you?), bonjour!. (various references)

   

German

  

guten tag! (Good afternoon!, How do you do?Brit), guten abend!, angenehm!. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

τι κάνεισ; (how are you?, how dye do?), τι κάνετε; (how are you?). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

jó napot! (good afternoon!, how-de-do!, howdy!, how-d'ye-do!), jó napot kívánok! (doog day!, good afternoon!), üdvözlöm!, örvendek!. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

始めまして (I am glad to meet you), 初めまして (I am glad to meet you). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

はじめまして (I am glad to meet you). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

cón ta bai? (how are you?). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

owhay oday youay o?day

   

Portuguese

  

comovocêestápassando (how are you?), comoestá? (how are you?), como vai? (how are you?, how is it going?). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

ciamar a tha sibh? (how are you?). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

qué tal? (how are things?, how are you?), cómo está ud.? (how are you?), ¿cómo está usted? (how are you?), ?cómo está usted? (how are you?). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

goddag!, god dag!. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tanıştığımıza memnun oldum!, merhaba!. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

як пожива"те? (how are you?). (various references)

   

Yucatec

  

biix a beele'ex? (how are you?), biix a beel? (how are you?). (various references)

   

Zulu

  

usaphila na? (how are you?), uphila njani? (how are you?), unjani? (how are you?), ninjani? (how are you?), kunjani? (how are you?). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: HOW DO YOU DO?

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "?-d-d-h-o-o-o-o-u-w-y"

-5 letters: hoodoo.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Usage: Modern
2. Quotations: Fiction
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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