Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona duit

Happy Saint Patrick's Day · Law ay-leh Paw-drig sun-ah dit

Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona duit means Happy Saint Patrick's Day, and is said Law ay-leh Paw-drig sun-ah dit.

Word for word

Taken literally it reads Day of the feast of Patrick 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 ay-leh Paw-drig sun-ah dit, written the way an English speaker would read it.

When you’d say it

Féile is a feast day, and it lenites to Fhéile here, which is why the F goes silent. Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig, the blessings of Patrick's feast, is the other way to say it.

More like this

• Lá breithe sona duit: Happy birthday to you
• Nollaig shona duit: Happy Christmas
• Athbhliain faoi mhaise duit: Happy New Year
• Cáisc shona duit: Happy Easter
• Oíche Shamhna shona duit: Happy Halloween
• Comhghairdeas leat: Congratulations

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