Palabras que se dicen a quien ha tenido éxito.
Words said to someone who has succeeded.
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See how the word “felicidades” is used in sentences
¡Felicidades por el trabajo nuevo! — Congratulations on the new job!
Dale mis felicidades a tu hermana. — Please pass on my congratulations to your sister.
La carta terminaba con unas cálidas felicidades. — The letter ended with warm congratulations.
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Download the app for free Spanish vocabulary testSpanish has two words here and the split does not match English. Enhorabuena is for something achieved — a job, an exam, a promotion. Felicidades is for something that simply arrived — a birthday, Christmas, New Year. English congratulations covers only the first half; the second is happy birthday.
So felicidades does the work of both, and that is why it is the one you hear. The split is also geographic: enhorabuena is mostly Spain, and across Latin America felicidades covers everything, achievements included.
felicitar to congratulate
The verb, and the preposition is por where English uses on.
boda wedding
At a wedding Spain says enhorabuena to the couple; Latin America says felicidades. Both are correct where they are said.
fiesta party, festival
Felicidades belongs to occasions, and a fiesta is the archetype of one.
desear to wish
Te deseo lo mejor — the neutral formula, the equivalent of best wishes.
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