Comhghairdeas leat

Congratulations · Koh-gar-dyas lat

Comhghairdeas leat means Congratulations, and is said Koh-gar-dyas lat.

Word for word

Taken literally it reads Co-rejoicing with you. Irish often puts a sentence together differently from English, so the literal reading rarely matches the meaning.

How to say it

Say it Koh-gar-dyas lat, written the way an English speaker would read it.

When you’d say it

Comh is the Irish for co or together, and gairdeas is rejoicing, so the word is built the same way the Latin one is. On its own, comhghairdeas does the job.

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