Polish Weird Birthday Song: Sto Lat 🇵🇱🫶

I thought every country had the same happy birthday song! I guess I was wrong 😱 🇵🇱

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[aroangelique]

wow, this reminded me that when I was in Poland I must have sang this 20+ times whilst not speaking Polish, to the point I would sleep and I'd hear it in my sleep!

[RavynTTV]

If someone's 101 we sing, "dwieście lat, dwieście lat, niech żyje żyje nam" with means we wish them living for another 100 years

[greeneyedshetiger]

Haha, cool. That’s like the Swedish “birthday song” where they also sing a wish for the person to live for a 100 years.

Ja, må han (hon) leva,
Ja, må han (hon) leva,
Ja, må han (hon) leva uti hundrade år!
Ja visst ska han (hon) leva,
Ja visst ska han (hon) leva,
Ja visst ska han (hon) leva uti hundrade år!

I’m not Swedish btw 😅 but I find it funny how cultures remind of each other in some way ways 😊

[mnpl]

No we don't. We wish thier union to be be happy and long. The two songs contains simillar/ever in places indentical phrases but they are not the same.

[IamBored]

We then sing "Dwieście lat, dwieście lat, niech żyje, żyje nam" - "Two hundred, two hundred years, may they live, may they live"

Also if someone's iterested the translation in english is:
"A hundred years, hundred years,
may they live, may they live.
A hundred years, hundred years,
may they live, may they live.
[sing] Again! [sing] Again!
May they live, may they live! May they live!"

[Antna]

In Poland when someone turns 101, polish people sing "200 lat, 200 lat"

[HelenaSolich]

There is also a version where you sing "sto lat sto lat to za mało - stopięćdziesiąt by się zdało" which means "a hundred years a hundred years that's to little - a hundred and fifty would be better"

[bnnafsh]

after 101? we could sing 200 years or a verson with "a hundred years its too little"
beside that we have ALOT verses in that song if you want to sing it all
Im struggling when they sing sto lat for me and im standing and they still going😭 a verse about shining star, verse about drinking yall done let me just eat cake the rest can start drinking xd

[AgaM-hc]

Then they sing "dwieście lat dwieście lat niech żyje żyje nam, , LOL😂

[maciekwodawski]

We sing "Sto lat" on:
Birthday
Celebration of winned elections
Teacher's Day.
I will add the others.

[bejbeimbejbe]

When someone turns 101 we sing dwieście lat dwieście lat (200 = dwieście)

[yourlocalnita]

ur the better version of nasdaily forsure

[fimc]

What do they sing at a 101st birthday party? 🤔

[starlinguk]

Now we know where Pratchett got that name.

[Martyna_Ł_pl]

If someone somehow turns more then 100 years of age we sing the same but with two hundred ☺️
"Dwieście lat Dwieście lat niech żyje żyje nam..

[agnieszkajagielska]

"sto Lat" in Polish means 100 years

[malisa_]

I had no idea about it, I mean i didnt have ocasion to sing it acxept of birthday

[Endleshorspanish]

Polish store in English 100 years 100 years

[patrykkapusciak]

I am from poland and 101 sing dwieście lat . Dwieście lat is 200

[Your_local_Arizona]

We sing " 100 lat to za nalo 100 lat to za malo 150 by sie chcialo x2
200 to parzysta 200 to parzysta niech nam zyje cale 300 x2
A ja noge przysiac a ja moge przysiac niech nam zyje caly tysiac!"
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