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Ahoy all;

I am not sure this is the right forum to post this topic, but I looked around and did not find any where really suyitable.....:D
So here is my question...In quite a few posts I have seen, at the beginning of a post the following wor "Moin....XXX" :hmmm: I guess it is some sort of ...Ahoy, hello, bonjour....??
Can anybody tell me ?

Merci

My guess is Hello. :)

Bingo!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moin

I believe you can hear it said many times over in Das Boot. Sometimes as "moin moin" with "moin" being the reply. :yep:

Merci :)

I often hear it in Flensburg.

Isnt 'moin' the word for 'less' in french?

I believe that's "moins," with an "s."

That Wiki article is pretty interesting, apparently there are different varieties of the word/phrase in use in Danish and Finnish dialects also.

Check posts by my fellow Grey Wolf DivingDuck (he is German) and you'll find most if not all his posts commence with 'Moin' (Hello).

Thanks for that link Frau, I always wondered if 'Moin' had anything to do with my local dialect. Turns out it does :DL
I live in the north east of the Netherlands (not far from the German border in the north-west) and in our dialect 'moi' (so without the 'n') can be used for 'hi' or 'hello' as well as 'goodbye' (we're quite short and brief in our dialect here) In fact, people right across the border in Germany (only a few miles) speak almost the same dialect as here. Here it's called Gronings, across the border they call it Plattdeutsch I believe.

This dialect here is called 'Gronings' though, and not 'Frisian-Gronings' as Wiki states. Some people here might take offense at being called Frisian ;)
But now I finally know that 'moin' is the same as 'my' moi!

So moi! to all of you :D

Oh, and you're right about the French. Less = Moins

Bonjour,
Well well, I never thought that "Moin" would get so many replies & great explanations......:DL

Merci to all of you

Moin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moin ;)

Best regards,
Magic

You should hear it here in Flensburg all day long...

btw: Moin!

I even hear it in the North(Eastern) provinces (Groningen and Drenthe) of the Netherlands. They border on northern Germany. There it is also used as a way of greeting. But it sounds more like 'Moi'. With a short 'o'. (... which means Me in French ;) )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moin