Please correct the sentences : How are you? Cómo es usted?

Question

Here it is; The list!

Top 5: How are you? -- ¿Cómo es usted?

Top 4: Good night -- Buenas noches

Top 3: Good day to you -- El día bueno a usted

Top 2: Where are you from? -- ¿Dónde está usted de?

People really want to know this: Nice day to all of you! -- ¡El día agradable a todos ustedes!

Thx 4 reading

I am not sure if those are correct - swing, May 28, 2010

Here's an opportunity to exercise what we learned from the thread on voting down replies. - 0074b507, May 28, 2010

Bienvenido al foro. Welcome to the forum. - 0074b507, May 28, 2010

No entiendo. Solamente una de las frases es correcta! - waltico, May 28, 2010

Answer 1

(formal) ¿Cómo está usted? (informal) ¿Cómo estás?

Buenas noches.

Que tengas un buen día. (I do not hear that much...)

(formal) ¿De dónde es usted? (informal) ¿De dónde eres?

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Other phrases you can say besides "que tengas un buen día"...

Que le vaya bien... literally... that it goes well for you. (formal)

Que te vaya bien...(same meaning, informal)

Que te lo pases bien... Wishing someone well, that they have a good time ... with plans they may have.(informal)

Que se lo pase bien... (same meaning, formal)

despedidas - 0074b507, May 28, 2010

Answer 2

Nothing wrong with ¿Cómo es usted? but I doubt that it is more commonly asked than ¿Cómo está usted?

Doesn't ¿Cómo es usted? mean " What are you like? and not "How are you?"? - aeroplod, May 28, 2010

It does. - kenwilliams, May 28, 2010