Oíche Shamhna shona duit

Happy Halloween · Ee-heh How-nah hun-ah dit

Oíche Shamhna shona duit means Happy Halloween, and is said Ee-heh How-nah hun-ah dit.

Word for word

Taken literally it reads Night of Samhain 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 Ee-heh How-nah hun-ah dit, written the way an English speaker would read it.

When you’d say it

Oíche Shamhna is the night before Samhain, the old Irish start of winter. Halloween went to America from Ireland and came back with a pumpkin instead of a turnip.

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• 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
• Comhghairdeas leat: Congratulations

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