Lá breithe sona duit

Happy birthday to you · Law breh-heh sun-ah dit

Lá breithe sona duit means Happy birthday to you, and is said Law breh-heh sun-ah dit.

Word for word

Taken literally it reads Day of birth happy to you. Irish often puts a sentence together differently from English, so the literal reading rarely matches the meaning.

How to say it

Say it Law breh-heh sun-ah dit, written the way an English speaker would read it.

When you’d say it

Sona is the happy word in most Irish greetings. To more than one person it becomes sona daoibh, and you will often see breithlá sona duit as well, which turns the two words around.

More like this

• Nollaig shona duit: Happy Christmas
• Athbhliain faoi mhaise duit: Happy New Year
• Cáisc shona duit: Happy Easter
• Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona duit: Happy Saint Patrick's Day
• Oíche Shamhna shona duit: Happy Halloween
• Comhghairdeas leat: Congratulations

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