birthday
SubstantivVerbTop 1 000 in Filmdialogen
- Vereinigtes Königreich//ˈbɜːθ.deɪ//
- Vereinigtes Königreich//ˈbɜːθ.dei//
- Kanada//ˈbɝθˌdeɪ//
The anniversary of the day on which someone is born.
Substantiv
- 1
The anniversary of the day on which someone is born.
When's your birthday? Mine's on April 1.
I'll be thirty-seven (years old) next birthday.
Oliver Twist's ninth birthday found him a pale thin child, somewhat diminutive in stature, and decidedly small in circumference.
1906, Edith Nesbit, The Railway Children, Chapter 9: The pride of Perks, "And we thought we'd make a nice birthday for him. He's been so awfully jolly decent to us, you know, Mother," said Peter, "and we agreed that next bun-day we'd ask you if we could."
- 2
The anniversary of the day on which something is created.
- 3
The date on which someone is born or something is created, more commonly called birthdate or date of birth.
- 4
A birthday party.
I'd like to invite you all to my birthday.
Herkunft
Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *gaburdidag Old English ġebyrddæġ Middle English birthdai English birthday From Middle English birthdai, birtheday, from Old English ġebyrddæġ (“birthday”), influenced by Old Norse burðr, equivalent to birth + day. Compare Saterland Frisian Gebuursdai (“birthday”), Dutch geboortedag (“birthday”), Low German Geboortsdag (“birthday”), German Geburtstag (“birthday”), Norwegian bursdag, gebursdag (“birthday”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English nativitee (“birth, nativity, birthday”), from Old French nativité, nativited, from Latin nātīvitas.
Verb
- 1
umgangssprachlichTo celebrate one's birthday.
Formen
- Plural
- birthdays
- Präteritum
- birthdayed
- Partizip II
- birthdayed
- Partizip I
- birthdaying
- 3. Person Singular
- birthdays
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