Tips and Tricks: French Phrases

Best Wishes, Congratulations, & Holiday Greetings in French

Unless you’re a native speaker of a language, it can be very difficult to figure out what to say on a greeting card. If you just grab something off the Internet or, heavens forbid, rely on Google Translate (usually hilariously inaccurate), you can get into trouble.

We’ve found a list of generic French phrases for best wishes, congratulations for weddings and graduations (for example), and holidays, etc. that may be useful if you want to try your hand at a non-English greeting card. The phrases include the necessary diacritical marks, so be sure to use a font supporting them. Diacritical marks cannot be left out.

So have fun beefing up your card collection!