Tuesday, December 4, 2007

How do you say merry Christmas in several languages?

Afrikaans: Geseënde Kersfees

Afrikander: "Een Plesierige Kerfees"

African/ Eritrean/ Tigrinja: Rehus-Beal-Ledeats

Albanian:Gezur Krislinjden

Arabic: "I'd Miilad Said Oua Sana Saida"

Bohemian:"Vesele Vanoce"

Brazilian:"Boas Festas e Feliz Ano Novo"

Chinese (Cantonese):"Saint Dan Fai Lok"

(Mandarin): "Kung His Hsin Nien bing Chu Shen Tan"

Croatian:"Sretan Bozic"

Danish: "Glaedelig Jul"

Dutch: "Vrolijk Kerstfeest en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar"

English:"Merry Christmas"

Farsi: "Cristmas-e-shoma mobarak bashad"

Finnish: "Hyvaa joulua"

French:"Joyeux Noël"

German:"Froehliche Weihnachten"

Greek: "Kala Christouyenna"

Hebrew:"Mo'adim Lesimkha. Chena tova"

Hindi: "Shub Naya Baras"

Hungarian:"Kellemes Karacsonyi unnepeket"

Icelandic: "Gledileg Jol"

Irish: "Nollaig Shona Dhuit"

Italian: "Buone Feste Natalizie"

Japanese:"Shinnen omedeto. Kurisumasu Omedeto"

Korean: "Sung Tan Chuk Ha"

Navajo: "Merry Keshmish"

Norwegian: "God Jul"

Polish:"Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia"

Portuguese: "Boas Festas"

Russian: "Pozdrevlyayu s prazdnikon Rozhdestva is Novim Godom"

Samoan:"La Maunia Le kilisimasi Ma Le Tausaga Fou"

Scots gaelic: "Nollaig Chridheil Huibh"

Slovene: "Srecen Bozic"

Spanish"Feliz Navidad"

Spanish ( Argentine) "Felices Pasquas"

Swedish:"God Jul"

Tagalog (Filipino): "Maligayang Pasko"

Turkish: Noeliniz Ve Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun

Welsh: "Nadolig Llawen"

Yoruba:
E ku odun, e ku iye'dun!

3 comments:

Zach said...

Hello Nicolette,

I just discovered your blog this evening and I absolutely love it. You have so many indispensables tips for learning foreign languages. Thank you so much for posting this list of words. I have been looking for a Christmas word list, but haven't found one until now.

Take care and keep up the great work!!! :-)

Zach

Nicolette said...

Hi Zach,

Thank you for your comment and for encouragement.
I wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year.

Nicolette.

Bhixma said...

In Portuguese, usually we say: "Feliz Natal". We use "Boas Festas" to the season between Christmas and New Year. So "Boas Festas" is more like "Season Greetings"