Meaning & use
give my best regards
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Meaning
phrasefixed phraseformal
a polite request to pass on your friendly greetings and good wishes to someone
Grammar: Used as a complete polite remark, often followed by 'to someone'.
Patterns
- give my best regards to someone
- give someone my best regards
Please give my best regards to your parents when you see them.
Give my best regards to the whole team.
She asked me to give her best regards to you.
Common combinations
- give my best regards to
- Give my best regards to your family.
- send my best regards
- I'll send my best regards in the card.
- with best regards
- With best regards, Anna (at the end of a letter).
Synonyms and how they differ
- give my best wishes
- Very similar, but 'wishes' often suggests hopes for a specific event like a birthday or recovery.
- say hello for me
- More casual and less formal than 'give my best regards'.
Word family
- regards noun
- Polite greetings sent to someone, as in 'Give her my regards.'
Commonly confused: give my best regards or give my best?
give my best regards vs give my best
'Give my best' also means to send greetings, but it is more casual and can sound incomplete without 'regards' or 'wishes'.
Practice
Which sentence uses the phrase correctly?
Choose one answer.
The correct preposition is 'to': you give regards to a person. The other prepositions do not fit this fixed expression.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “give my best regards”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.