happy birthday

Speech parts

1. happy birthday - Verb

2. happy birthday - Interjection

Meaning

happy birthday

Said or written to a person who is celebrating his or her birthday in order to convey the good wishes of the speaker or writer (literally, "may you have a happy birthday")
Happy birthday, Joe! Have a fantastic day!
Synonyms: many happy returns, many happy returns of the day

happy birthday (third-person singular simple present happy birthdays, present participle happy birthdaying, simple past and past participle happy birthdayed)

(colloquial, transitive) To wish (someone) a happy birthday.
(Can we add an example for this sense?)

Examples

After throwing his fifth interception, which was returned for a touchdown, 40,000 or so Cowboys fans at Texas Stadium sang “Happy Birthday to you” to Theismann and he could do nothing but sit on the bench and shake his head. Source: Internet

After sharing the picture on social media, one of said: "Happy birthday! Source: Internet

Athiya posted a super cute photo with the birthday boy, KL Rahul, on social media and captioned the picture as "Happy birthday, my person" with heart emojis. Source: Internet

At 9am on 21st April let’s all sing her Happy Birthday from our windows, balconies and doorsteps and show her how much we care pic. Source: Internet

For example, singing "Happy Birthday" or other relatively common, repeated linguistic discourses, could be fluid in people who stutter. Source: Internet

Fausat Balogun on her Instagram wrote: “Happy birthday to you my beautiful sister, long life with good health, wealth and happiness In sha Allahu. Source: Internet

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