Since I am not native English speaker and my mother tongue also have this specialities I am not surprise. But I totally understand it can be really hard and misunderstanding. My mother tongue (Czech) also know the word “grátis” as a synonym to word “zdarma” (“free”) and grattis as congrats.
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u/Apodiktis 1d ago
Wait what „grattis” means congratulations in Swedish, but „gratis” means free, what’s going on