Why Good day is Guter Tag and Good morning is Guten Morgen if both are masculine?

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24/04/02

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Why Good day is Guter Tag and Good morning is Guten Morgen if both are masculine?

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24/04/02

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Hi 😃

That's a really good question!

Like you said both nouns (der Morgen, der Tag) are masculine.

If we want to greet someone we use: Guten Morgen or Guten Tag. So you can see it as an imperative.

In a sentence we would use: " Es ist ein guter Morgen / guter Tag. "

So the short answer: It is "Guten Tag!"

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24/04/02

Thank you!! For greetings, what case is that? I can see in the Word Form that both Genitive and Accusative for masculine uses "guten".

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24/08/01

Hi Hani, greetings are set phrases ("(Rede)Wendungen") and therefore are not subject to change depending on the case. "Tag" and "Morgen" can have a case when they are on their own (not used as a greeting), but "Guten Tag" and "Guten Morgen" do not have a case.