Quick answer
Mañana es fiesta, está todo cerrado.
Tomorrow is a public holiday, everything is closed. Ser fiesta is the fixed way to say a day is a holiday.
The words
| Spanish | English |
|---|---|
| la fiesta | the celebration |
| el día festivo | the public holiday |
| las vacaciones | the holidays |
| la Navidad | Christmas |
| la Nochebuena | Christmas Eve |
| la Nochevieja | New Year's Eve |
| los Reyes Magos | the Three Kings |
| la Semana Santa | Holy Week |
| el cumpleaños | the birthday |
| el regalo | the present |
| el desfile | the parade |
| los fuegos artificiales | the fireworks |
| el puente | the long weekend |
| celebrar | to celebrate |
| felicitar | to congratulate |
The phrases you will actually say
Worth knowing
On Nochevieja Spain eats twelve grapes, one on each chime of the clock at midnight, traditionally following the bells of the Puerta del Sol in Madrid on television; managing all twelve is supposed to bring a good year, and people buy tins of small peeled grapes to keep up. Presents traditionally arrive not on the twenty-fifth but on the sixth of January from los Reyes Magos, preceded by the cabalgata parade on the evening of the fifth. A puente is the bridge day taken when a holiday falls on a Tuesday or Thursday, and if two holidays make a four-day block people call it an acueducto. Finally, felicitar is used far more widely than "congratulate": you felicitar someone on their birthday, their saint day and at Christmas.
Practice
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