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Happy birthday

Catalan Per molts anys
Chinese (transliterated) Sheng ri kuai le (=lit.)/Shou bi nan shan (=May you live as long as the Southern mountain)
Croatian Sretan rodjendan
Danish Tillykke med fødselsdagen
Dutch Gelukkige verjaardag
French Bon anniversaire
German Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag
Hebrew (transliterated) Metav ihule le-yom huladtekha (masc.)/Metav ihule le-yom huladtekh (fem.)
Hungarian Isten éltesse sokáig
Italian Buon compleanno
Japanese (transliterated) Tanjobi omedeto
Korean (transliterated) Sengil chuka hamnida
Lithuanian Su gimtadieniu
Modern Greek (transliterated) Chronia polla (=many years)
Norwegian Gratulerer med dagen
Persian Tavallodat mobarak
Polish Sto'lat
Portuguese Feliz aniversario
Russian (transliterated) Pozdravlia(iu)(em) s Dnëm Rozhdeniia!
Serbian (transliterated) Srecan rodjendan
Spanish Feliz cumpleaños
Swedish Har den äran
Tagalog Maligayang kaarawán
Turkish Multu (or Hos) yas günü
Vietnamese Chui sinh rihat hanh phuc
Yiddish (transliterated) Mazl-tov tsu dayn geburtstog

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