buenas
Portuguese, interjection/ˈbwẽ.nɐs/
buenas is spelled B-U-E-N-A-S (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 47,254th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Buenas is a Portuguese interjection meaning “hello, hi” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “expressa saudação (por pessoas joviais)”.
What does buenas mean in English?
interjection
- 1
colloquialhello, hi
- 2
colloquialgood night; good afternoon or good evening (generally used to answer when someone says boa noite or boa tarde)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
interjection: 1. expressa saudação (por pessoas joviais)
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce buenas?
- Brazil /ˈbwẽ.nɐs/
- /ˈbwẽ.nɐʃ/
- /ˈbwe.nɐs/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is buenas in Portuguese?
buenas appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).