{"id":22139,"date":"2015-06-17T13:55:18","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T11:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=22139"},"modified":"2017-10-23T15:35:46","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T13:35:46","slug":"joyeux-anniversaire-to-you-french-birthdays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/joyeux-anniversaire-to-you-french-birthdays\/","title":{"rendered":"Joyeux Anniversaire To You &#8211; French Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many people in <strong>ma famille<\/strong> celebrate their <strong>anniversaire<\/strong> (birthday) in <strong>juin <\/strong>(June), including me! <strong>Aujourd\u2019hui<\/strong> (today) we\u2019re going to take a look at how to wish someone a Happy Birthday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-28772\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/06\/birthday-1114056_960_720.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"777\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/06\/birthday-1114056_960_720.jpg 960w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/06\/birthday-1114056_960_720-350x232.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/06\/birthday-1114056_960_720-768x508.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 777px) 100vw, 777px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are a two ways to say Happy Birthday in French:<\/p>\n<p><em>Joyeux anniversaire !<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Bon anniversaire !<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tr\u00e8s souvent<\/strong> (very often) a short <strong>phrase<\/strong> is attached:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Passe une tr\u00e8s bonne journ\u00e9e !\u00a0<\/strong> <em>Have a very good day!<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Passe une excellente journ\u00e9e !<\/strong> <em>Have an excellent day!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Of course, no <strong>anniversaire<\/strong> is complete with singing <em><strong>Joyeux Annivesaire<\/strong> <\/em>(<em>Happy Birthday to You<\/em>) before <strong>on souffle les bougies de son g\u00e2teau d\u2019anniversaire<\/strong> (you blow out the candles on your birthday cake). It\u2019s an easy song and you should try singing it the next time someone celebrates their <strong>anniversaire<\/strong>! Just fill in the blanks with the name of the person celebrating their <strong>anniversaire<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joyeux anniversaire,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Joyeux anniversaire,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Joyeux anniversaire _________ ,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Joyeux anniversaire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cependant<\/strong> (however), <strong>le fran\u00e7ais<\/strong> is a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/french-around-the-world-la-francophonie\/\">global language<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/where-to-hear-canadian-french\/\"><strong>au Canada<\/strong><\/a> there is a slightly different expression used to wish people <strong>joyeux anniversaire<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bonne f\u00eate!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And with this slightly different expression comes a slightly different song, <em><strong>Bonne f\u00eate \u00e0 toi<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><em>Bonne f\u00eate _________,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Bonne f\u00eate_________,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Bonne f\u00eate, bonne f\u00eate,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Bonne f\u00eate _________.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I wish any other June babies a <strong>joyeux anniversaire<\/strong>! If you want to practice your French, try wishing me a <strong>joyeux anniversaire<\/strong> in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"232\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/06\/birthday-1114056_960_720-350x232.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/06\/birthday-1114056_960_720-350x232.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/06\/birthday-1114056_960_720-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/06\/birthday-1114056_960_720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Many people in ma famille celebrate their anniversaire (birthday) in juin (June), including me! Aujourd\u2019hui (today) we\u2019re going to take a look at how to wish someone a Happy Birthday. There are a two ways to say Happy Birthday in French: Joyeux anniversaire ! Bon anniversaire ! Tr\u00e8s souvent (very often) a short phrase is&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/joyeux-anniversaire-to-you-french-birthdays\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":124,"featured_media":28772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22139","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/124"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28773,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22139\/revisions\/28773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}