Merry Christmas and [Happy] New Year's Day from all [of us] is an English equivalent of 'Buon Natale e Capodanno di Tutti'. The masculine adjective 'buono'* means 'good', fortunate'. The masculine noun 'Natale' means 'Nativity'. The conjunction 'e' means 'and'. The masculine noun 'Capodanno' combines the masculine noun 'capo'with the preposition 'di'* and the masculine noun 'anno' to mean 'head of year'. All together, they're pronounced 'bwohn nah-TAH-leh eh KAH-poh-DAHN-noh'.
*The vowel 'o' of 'buono' drops before a noun that begins with a consonant. The vowel 'i' of 'di' drops before a noun that begins with a vowel.
Merry Christmas to you all and [to all of] your family is an English equivalent of 'Buon Natale a voi e la vostra famiglia'. The masculine adjective 'buon'* means 'good, fortunate'. The masculine noun 'Natale' means 'Nativity'. The preposition 'a' means 'to'. The personal pronoun 'voi' means 'you all'. The conjunction 'e'means 'and'. The feminine definite article 'la' means 'the'. The feminine possessive 'vostra' means 'your'. The feminine noun 'famiglia' means 'family'. All together, they're pronounced 'bwohn nah-TAH-leh ah voy eh lah VOH-strah fah-MEE-lyah'.
*The vowel 'o' drops before a noun that begins with a consonant.
"Merry Christmas!" is an English equivalent of the Italian phrase Buon Natale!
Specifically, the masculine adjective buono* means "good" literally and "happy, merry" loosely. The masculine noun Natale translates literally as "Nativity" and loosely as "Christmas." The pronunciation will be "bwo-na-TA-ley" in Italian.
*The final vowel drops before a noun whose spelling begins with a consonant.
Buona Epifania a tutti! in Italian means "A nice Epiphany to you all!" in English.
Buona acacia! in Italian is "Good acacia tree!" in English.
Buona notte, principessa! in Italian means "Goodnight, Princess!" in English.
Buona donna alla ricerca... in Italian is "Good woman in search of..." in English.
"Good, but not good enough!" in English is Buona ma non abbastanza (buona)! in Italian.
Buona Pasta
buona pelle
Buona vita
buona tigre
"Good vacation" in English is buona vacanza in Italian.
"Good health" in English is buona salute in Italian.
"Good artist!" in English is Buona artista! in Italian.
"Good head!" in English is Buona testa! in Italian.