How to Say Goodbye in English

For closer relationships you often will jump right into like the next part of a greeting which is sort of the scripted greeting questions. Nihao however is somewhat more formal than you necessarily want for close friends. The English goodbye at least according to Wicksnary here I haven't looked too far into that a model to eat it's supposedly a sort of irregular contraction of God be with you and later we have good because of some confusion with good morning good day. In Chinese older Chinese people will still give you the greeting Nichofanlama which means have you eaten yet or not.