Dutch: Christmas greeting

[Philippa]

Hi folks
I wonder if any of you multilingual whizzes can translate my brother's Christmas card from the Netherlands:

Prettige Kerstdagen en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar

dagen is day??
and a something new year??

Thanks very much and a Happy Christmas to you all!
Philippa

 

[Whodunit]

Prettige Kerstdagen en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar

dagen is day??
and a something new year??

Referring to German - that's really similar - I would translate:

Best holidays and a happy New Year.

The other sentence is too hard for me. Hope a native or a linguistic genius knows more.

 

[Philippa]

Referring to German - that's really similar - I would translate:

Best holidays and a happy New Year.

The other sentence is too hard for me. Hope a native or a linguistic genius knows more.

Thanks, whodunit
What other sentence? I had some guesses underneath, do you mean that?
Philippa

 

[Sybil]

Philippa,

"Dag" is "day"
"Dagen" is plural ("days").
"Kerstdagen" means "Christmas"; "Prettig" means "nice, pleasurable", and "Prettige Kerstdagen" simply means "Merry Christmas."

How's that? )

 

[Philippa]

Thanks Sybil!
And Gelukkig is happy, presumably?!

een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar to you!
Philippa

 

[Sybil]

Yes, "gelukkig" is happy. )

Dank je wel. Philippa! ) (Thanks a lot!)
Ook een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar voor jou! (And a Happy New year for you too!)

Sybil

 

[Dusty019]

Prettige Kerstdagen en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar

Literal translation: Happy Christmas-days and a fourtunate new-year

Equivalent translation is: Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year