"Happy Birthday!"

Translation: お誕生日おめでとう！

[QuentinHea]

お誕生日おめでとう(ございます)

誕 : nativity, be born
生 : life

[Geminemini]

So essentially "congrats on being born and not dying"

[SimonTempl904058]

This is weird. I have never visited this comment section before, but four comments are marked as having been up or down-woted by me. Votes that I wouldn't have made.

[AkaiKonekoChan]

I have noticed the same thing this week! I was pretty certain I hadn't done it accidentally while scrolling. Odd.

[RubenEmblem]

How come おめでとう isn't enough?

[Mamoru90]

おめでとう just means "congrats." You can use it for other occasions.

[vincertes]

Why is it wrong to say おめでとうお誕生日?

[MilesBaker5]

I think because "お誕生日おめでとう" is more of a phrase, just like "happy birthday" in English, and how you can't really say "birthday happy".

[cmorwin]

"Happy" here has the hover text of おめてとう, when it should be おめでとう. If anyone reads this in the future, please double check & report if its still wrong. This'll be a hard fix to get visibility on because of how small it is.

[juggledean]

done.

[F861318]

fixed (01/06/2020)

[ElmarNieland]

おめてとう spotted

[AConanD]

Is it weird/wrong to say
お誕生日におめでとう !
?

[MilesBaker5]

Yes, 誕生日おめでとう is a set expression, and 誕生日におめでとう wouldn't make sense.

[AkemiNakas1]

The kanji referring to 'day' is misplaced

[AkemiNakas1]

The knaji referring to 'day' is misplaced