Happy Birthday Song in Korean

I luv celebrating birthdays!!.. I just luv the atmosphere of gathering with friends and just eat haha.. and then there's the birthday cake..
Tho I do like birthdays but I never really like celebrating mine.. I just enjoy organizing and celebrating my friends birthdays haha.. I know its kind of weird but yeah thats just me :)

I get the chance to sing Happy Birthday song in hangul yet coz well I will ended up singing by myself then coz my friends dont know hangul hoho.. tho someday I wish I could sing it along with people around just celebrating birthdays...

So the song goes like this...

새일 축하합니다

[Saengil chukhahamnida]


생일 축하합니다

[Saengil chukhahamnida]


사랑하는 <이름-이/ 씨>

[Saranghaneun ]


생일 축하합니다

[Saengil chukhahamnida]

축하합니다 actually means 'congratulation'.

Birthday in hangul is 생일 [saeng-il] where 일 means 'day'.

So to wish someone a Happy birthday would be...

• 생일 축하합니다 [saeng-il chukha-hamnida] this is polite formal way to say it
• 생일 축하해요 [saeng-il chukha-haeyo] this is the casual polite way

To ask someone's date of birth would be 생년월일 [saeng-nyeon-wor-il].
and if we translate syllable by syllable:-
년= Year
월= month
일= day

Greetings in Hangul...

How would you greet the giraffe then?


안녕하세요 …..

For this entry I’d like to share a simple way of greetings in hangul..
A simple way of greeting in hangul would be, annyeonghaseyo (안녕하세요 = hello).. the word that I always start with whenever I wanted to write an entry hehe..
When we want to say ‘Goodbye’ to someone who’s leaving, it would be… annyeong-hi gaseyo (안녕히가세요)..

And for someone who is leaving, saying ‘goodbye’ to someone who’s staying would be… annyeong-hi gyeseyo (안녕히게세요)…

So REMEMBER!... the only difference between the two is 가세요 & 게세요..

So, how do you introduce yourself in hangul??..
Usually after you say, “hello” to someone new, you must wanted to introduce urself laa rite? rite?....haha..
To introduce yourself you can say 저는…name..이에여 (jeoneun ..name.. -ieyo). It means ” I am…”.
저는 is actually made up of the word for “ I” = 저 (jeo) followed by 는 (neun), a particle which shows the word before is the ‘subject’ of the sentence.

So, how do you say “hello, I’m zarith” in hangul??..
안녕하세요, 저는 자리트이에요…

Note : if you notice I wrote ‘zarith’ in hangul as ‘jariteu’.. For korean, foreign names are phonetically represented so they may sound slightly different. This is particularly noticeable if a name ends with a consonant (except n, m, r of l). Koreans tend to pronounce the last consonant of name separately by adding a vowel sound eu or i (ㅡ orㅣ). For example, Jack = 제크 (Jekeu) or Raj = 라지 (Laji)…
That’s it for this entry… : )
More entry on hangul soon…