Season - Jahreszeit &
Holiday - Feiertag
Year - Jahr
Winter - Winter
Spring - Frühling
Summer - Sommer
Fall/autumn - Herbst
Snow - Schnee
Flower - Blume
Sun - Sonne
New Year's eve - Silvester (sometimes also Sylvester)
New Year - Neujahr
Happy new year! - Frohes neues Jahr!
Easter - Ostern
Easter egg - Osterei
Pentecost - Pfingsten
Ascension Day - Christi Himmelfahrt
Thanksgiving - Erntedankfest (but you can't compare it. We don't really celebrate it and if you wanna talk about american Thanksgiving you say Thanksgiving :) )
Halloween - Halloween
St Nicholas' Day - Nikolaus(tag)
Christmas - Weihnachten
Christmas eve - Heiligabend
(→ Heilig - Holy; Abend - evening)
→In Germany children get their presents on the 24th of december.
Christmas day - 1. Weihnachtsfeiertag
Boxing day - 2. Weihnachtsfeiertag
Over Christmas and New Year - Zwischen (den) Jahren
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