¿Por qué no tenemos "evening"?

Question

El inglés tiene evening y el francés soir para designar ese momento de transición de tarde-noche, pero el español no tiene una palabra, ¿quizá anochecer o atardecer? pero no siempre son adecuadas :(

Answer 1

If you want to describe early evening, not afternoon but not yet dark you could perhaps say "media tarde" as evening - seeing as la tarde can go from around 2pm until dark - if you say "media tarde" you show you mean the second or later part of the afternoon - ie. the early evening.

Answer 2

Y qué tal 'crepúsculo' = twilight. When I was a child in Northern Saskatchewan we had twilight til around 10:30 at night. It was lovely (in the summer of course)

Answer 3

What I would like to know is, what do Spanish speaking people use to describe the night between midnight and sunrise.

I have heard that "madrugada" can be used, although some people would say:

Son las dos de la mañana for 2AM.

Does anyone ever say this? :

Son las dos de la madrugada.

Muchas gracias

By the way, don't feel so bad about not having a word for "evening". You really can get by without it. jeje - Nicole-B, Jun 22, 2010

Answer 4

I think some of my Mexican friends say, "en la tarde más tarde," for maybe between 7pm and dark.

Answer 5

In English English the evening starts at 6pm - irrespective of where the sun is.

In Bolivia they say "noche" as soon as the sun has gone down.

I have never heard "media tarde" here.

Answer 6

Sólo estoy desenterrando este post.

Answer 7

Estas son las equivalencias:

good morning> buenos días good afternon> buenas tardes good evening> buenas noches (al llegar) good night> buenas noches (al despedirse)

Aunque algunas personas dicen buenas tardes - noches principalmente en horario de verano cuando alrededor de las 20:00 está llegando a su final la luz del día aunque el sol ya se haya ocultado.

Answer 8

Hola,

Qué tal ocaso... Sé que no se usa así, pero es una opción.