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Easter Welsh Phrases
Y Pasg
Easter is called "Y Pasg" in Welsh. The phrase to know first is "Pasg Hapus!" (Happy Easter!).
Easter is y Pasg in Welsh. Below are the Easter greeting and the Welsh words for the days around it. Each phrase comes with a short note on when to use it.
Greetings
Pasg Hapus!
Happy Easter!
The usual Easter greeting. Hapus means happy.
Useful words
y Pasg
Easter
Used with the article: adeg y Pasg, "at Easter".
Sul y Blodau
Palm Sunday
Literally "Sunday of the Flowers", the Sunday before Easter.
hapus
happy
The adjective in the greeting, as in Pen-blwydd hapus.
The history of Y Pasg
Easter falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after the spring equinox, so its date moves between March and April. Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru defines Pasg as the feast held in the Western Church on that Sunday to commemorate the resurrection of Christ. The word comes, through Latin pascha and Greek, from the Hebrew name for Passover, which is why Pasg means both Easter and Passover. The Sunday before Easter is Sul y Blodau, literally "Sunday of the Flowers".
Common questions
How do you say Happy Easter in Welsh?
Pasg Hapus!
Easter in the other Celtic languages
Further reading
Go beyond the phrases
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Sources
Every phrase and fact on this page was checked against the sources below. Last checked 2026-10-20.
- Wikipedia
- Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru: Pasg
- Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org
- Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org
- blas. course data
- Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru: Sul
- Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org
Credit: Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0.