Today is my birthday and I will it use as an excuse to share one of my favourite Russian songs ever - Crocodile Genas Birthday Song (here with Russian and English text)
Let’s pick up a line from the song
“к сожалению день рождения только раз в году”
“Unfortunately birthday is only once a year”
There is an excellent Finnish version by M.A.Numminen
where this line is a bit differenet
“Voisin viettää juhlapäivää jälleen huomenna”
“I could have another festive day once again tomorrow”
There are plenty of nice words to pick-up from the song:
к сожалению - unfortunately (dative form) - valitettavasti
только - only - vain
году - a year - vuosi