felicidades o felicitaciones?
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If I want to congratulate someone on something, which word should I use, felicidades or felicitaciones? What's the difference between them? And why does it seem that felicidades is used more often than felicitaciones?
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updated Jul 17, 2016
posted by joygogo
Good question! I needed to learn that too! - Raja-jani, Oct 16, 2013
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They are almost the same, but the use is different:
- Felicidades, muchas felicidades
- Mis más sinceras felicitaciones. Recibió una felicitación...
"Felicidades" is an expression similar a your Congratulations! is used alone. Felicitación is a noum. It can be similar to your "greeting card" or you Congratulation when used as noum and not as expression.
updated Jul 17, 2016
posted by caiser
Ok, I got it! Many thanks! And I just found some people discussed this question before on anothe webside--http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=482354. If you are interested in it, you may take a look and let me know what you think. - - joygogo, Sep 24, 2013
I believe this answer is incorrect. Check out this excellent explanation: http://www.enriqueulloa.cl/post/10147667264/felicidades-vs-felicitaciones - rshanna, Jul 17, 2016
