{"id":5695,"date":"2012-07-26T23:59:10","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T23:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/?p=5695"},"modified":"2018-02-08T09:55:27","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T09:55:27","slug":"happy-birthday-in-swedish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/happy-birthday-in-swedish\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday in Swedish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This blog has been plugging along now for over five years now! Pretty impressive. The blogs fifth birthday was just last month in fact. With that in mind, I think it\u2019s time to take a quick look at singing <em>Happy Birthday<\/em> in Swedish. Of course, it is not a direct translation, and doesn\u2019t even use the same melody, but that\u2019s what makes it a bit exciting. I\u2019ve included the lyrics below as well as a YouTube clip from the film <em>S\u00e5nghatten<\/em> (there are puppets involved. Puppets with adult human hands. It\u2019s a bit creepy, just be warned.).<\/p>\n<p>The Swedish version of Happy Birthday is called Ja m\u00e5 du leva. And the personal pronoun is generally adapted depending on who youa re singing to. If someone identitifes as a man, then the song will generally be sung as <em>J a \u00e5 han leva<\/em>, if someone identifies as a woman, then the song will probably be sung as <em>Ja m\u00e5 hon leva<\/em>. You get the idea.<\/p>\n<p>So, without further ado, the lyrics to <em>Ja m\u00e5 du leva<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>Ja, m\u00e5 han leva!<br \/>\nJa, m\u00e5 han leva!<br \/>\nJa, m\u00e5 han leva uti hundrade \u00e5r!<br \/>\nJavisst ska han leva!<br \/>\nJavisst ska han leva!<br \/>\nJavisst ska han leva uti hundrade \u00e5r!<\/p>\n<p>In English:<\/p>\n<p>Yes, may he live!<br \/>\nYes, may he live!<br \/>\nYes, may he live for a hundred years!<br \/>\nOf course he will live!<br \/>\nOf course he will live!<br \/>\nOf course he will live for a hundred years!<\/p>\n<p>The song usually ends with four repetitions of \u201cHurra!\u201d And if people are feeling especially adventurours, there is a second verse that is sometimes sung:<\/p>\n<p>Och n\u00e4r han har levat!<br \/>\nOch n\u00e4r han har levat!<br \/>\nOch n\u00e4r han har levat uti hundrade \u00e5r!<br \/>\nJa, d\u00e5 ska han skjutas!<br \/>\nJa, d\u00e5 ska han skjutas!<br \/>\nJa, d\u00e5 ska han skjutas p\u00e5 en skottk\u00e4rra fram!<\/p>\n<p>In English:<\/p>\n<p>And when he has lived<br \/>\nAnd when he has lived<br \/>\nAnd when he has lived for a hundred years!<br \/>\nYes, then he will be wheeled<br \/>\nYes, then he will be wheeled<br \/>\nYes, then he will be wheeled away in a wheelbarrow!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ja m\u00e5 du leva! - S\u00e5ngHatten\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nia0BVVMnCw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog has been plugging along now for over five years now! Pretty impressive. The blogs fifth birthday was just last month in fact. With that in mind, I think it\u2019s time to take a quick look at singing Happy Birthday in Swedish. Of course, it is not a direct translation, and doesn\u2019t even use&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/happy-birthday-in-swedish\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[191906,3446,364872,191907],"class_list":["post-5695","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-culture","tag-happy-birthday-in-swedish","tag-swedish","tag-swedish-language","tag-swedish-songs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5695"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7990,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5695\/revisions\/7990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}