That means Merry Christmas in Spanish, right?
How do you say Merry Christmas in other languages? Include phonic pronunciation if you can.
That means Merry Christmas in Spanish, right?
How do you say Merry Christmas in other languages? Include phonic pronunciation if you can.
In Swedish, it’s basically pronounced “Good Yule”, but try to say the “oo” part of “Good” farther back in your throat.
It’s “feliz.”
I wondered why that wouldn’t translate. There’s all kinds of references to “Felice Navidad” on the web though.
possibly my mistake. i’m not a spanish expert but ive always seen it as “feliz”
This site: http://www.freetranslation.com/ says you are correct.
Prettig Kerstfeest - Dutch
[Try a rolling rrrr -] Prrrrett / tig - [like in ‘Tigger’ but with a guttural G]
Kairst fayzed.
Fröhliche Weinachten - German
:eek: mmmm. That ö is hard to describe…We know the sound in Dutch. We write it like this : eu
But I can’t think of an English word with the sound in it.
umm…You know Göthe? The philosopher? [well, not personally, ofcourse ;)]
Like that.
Frö / lee / shjuh - Why / nach [like in Bach] / tuh.
Have a good one yourself.
A site with “Merry Christmas” in over a hundred language.
Never trust the internet when it comes to spelling unless it happens to be a dictionary site.
Finnish:
Hauskaa Joulua
Pronounced: Hoo-ahh Yowl-wa
(“Yowl” sounds like “bowl”)
We don’t really have that sound in English. But try holding your lips as if you were trying to say “ooo”, and then try to say “eee”. That’ll come…well…somewhat close.
Isn’t the ö somewhat like the ‘u’ in ‘landlubbers’ or ‘lurve’, but more extended?
BTW, I never thought of this when I was taking Spanish, but why is it “Feliz Navidad” and not “Navidad Feliz”? Anyone?
Welsh: Nadolig llawen.
Irish: Nollaig shona dhuit.
Cantonese: Sing dan fie lo.
That’s how I was taught back when I was taking German classes. Whether it’s completely accurate, I don’t know, but I think it was about the best we poor college freshmen could do when trying to pronounce it.
I’m not seeing how you derive “hoo-aah” from “Hauskaa”, which would be pronounced more like “House-kaah”. “Hoo-aah” would be closer to “Hyvää joulua”, which is also a Christmas greeting, meaning pretty much the same thing.
A couple of years ago I sent my Spanish-speaking sister a lovely floral holiday centerpiece. I ordered it online and specified that the card was to say “Feliz Navidad”. When she got it, the card read, “Feliz Nazi Dad”.
Perhaps she’s a porn star.
As a Spanish teacher explained to the class when I took the language, Navidad Feliz would refer to Christmas itself being like a person with the capacity to feel happiness. Feliz Navidad is basically a shortened way of saying “I wish that you be happy on the day of the Nativity” (i.e. Christmas). Similarly, the Spanish equivalent of “Happy New Year” is Prospero Año Nuevo because the desire is for the recipient of the wish to be prosperous, and not the year itself.
The Bohemian/Czech Vesele Vanoce is basically pronounced VEH-seh-leh VAH-nooh-cheh (Czech is one of the most perfectly phonetic languages, and the first syllable is almost always the stressed one). The special Christmas breads include vanocka, which is pronounced VAH-noohch-kah (the second syllable’s vowel sound, as in vanoce. being somewhere between the “o” in “boat” and the “oo” in “book”).
::fake sombrero band::
Feliz navidad
Feliz navidad
Feliz navidad
Ve wiz yoo a mairy Krisztmaz
E wiz yoo a mairy Kriztmas
from dey boddom ov-our haaardz!
Feliz navidad
Feliz navidad
::put on merciles repeat untill January fifth, 2005 ::
::mad cackling laughter:::
What do Mexican sheep say at Christmas?
‘Fleece Navidad!’