power as "Mult stimate ...") Onorată Comisie (addressed to a group of people, for example a commission) Onorați Reprezentanți (addressed to a group of representatives) Stimați/Onorați Participanți (both versions are good, addressed to a group of participants) Informal salutations The most widespread salutation for informal letters is, by a large margin, dragă (equivalent to English dear). This can be used independently of the recipient's gender and is normally followed by the first name. An alternative which is less familiar is salut (equivalent to English hi, hello), followed by the first name. This version is typical of the workplace, where using dragă would be too familiar. Examples: Dragă Ruxanda; Dragă Mihai (used usually with the first name) Salut Ruxanda; Salut Mihai Other During Romania's communist period, it was generally frowned upon to use domn/doamnă (meaning Mr./Mrs.) to address people, preferring tovarăș (comrade) or cetățean (citizen) instead. This was reflected in written communication from that period. Today, society has reverted to using domn/doamnă as the standard way to address or refer to others. Today, salutations using the distinctly communist-sounding tovarăș or cetățean are only used in closed communist circles or humorously. Examples: Stimate Tovarășe Ungureanu; Stimată Cetățeancă Ungureanu; Stimate Cetățean Ungureanu The oldest surviving document written in Romanian, a 16th-century letter from a Wallachian boyar to the mayor of Brașov, contained a salutation in Slavonic, a lingua franca of the region at that time. Mudromu I plemenitomu, I cistitomu I B[o]gom darovannomu zupan Hanăș Begner ot Brașov mnog[o] zdravie ot Nécșul ot Dlugopole. (To the most wise and noble and honoured and by God gifted master Hanăș Bengner [that is, Johannes Benkner] from Brașov, much health from Neacșu from Câmpulung.) Russian In letters and during conversations, Russian speakers use Уважаемый / Уважаемая (according to gender – M/F) Многоуважаемый / Многоуважаемая Глубокоуважаемый / Глубокоуважаемая followed by the given name and patronymic. Salutations to unknown parties usually include an honorific like Гражданин / Гражданка Господин / Госпожа Товарищ Examples: Уважаемый господин Иванов Уважаемая госпожа Иванова In less formal conversations it is possible to use Молодой человек (addressing a young man) Девушка (addressing a young woman) Spanish Informal salutations "Hola" / "Hola" (+ name). Every time, everywhere, oral or written. "Hola a todos". Addressed to a group of people, whether their names are known or not. Intermediate salutations. Not as simple as "hola" but can be used in every situation. These can be used in