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A New Year’s resolution is a vow people make to themselves to change an undesired habit or behaviour. The following map shows what New Year’s resolutions are called in European languages (different colours represent different etymologies):

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Albanian: rezolutat e Vitit të Ri

Belarusian: навагодняе абяцанне

Bulgarian: новогодишно обещание

Croatian: novogodišnja odluka

Czech: novoroční předsevzetí

Danish nytårsforsæt

Dutch: goed voornemen

English: New Year’s resolution

Estonian: uusaastalubadus

Finnish: uudenvuodenlupaus

French: bonne résolution (pour la nouvelle année)

German: guter Vorsatz für das neue Jahr

Greek: πρωτοχρονιάτικες αποφάσεις

Hungarian: újévi fogadalom

Icelandic: áramótaheit

Irish: rún athbhliana

Italian: (buon) proposito per l’anno nuovo

Latvian: jaunā gada apņemšanās

Lithuanian: naujųjų metų rezoliucija

Macedonian: новогодишна резолуција

Maltese: ir-riżoluzzjoni tas-sena l-ġdida

Norwegian: nyttårsforsett

Romanian: rezoluție de Anul Nou

Polish: postanowienie noworoczne

Portuguese: resolução de Ano Novo

Russian: новогоднее обещание

Serbian: новогодишња одлука

Slovak: novoročné predsavzatie

Slovene: novoletna zaobljuba

Spanish: resolución de Año Nuevo

Swedish: nyårslöfte

Turkish: yılbaşı kararı

Ukrainian: новорічне рішення or новорічна обіцянка

Welsh: adduned blwyddyn newydd

