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# birthday

«birthday» in Mova's school dictionary: **the day each year when a person was born; people often…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (birthday, birthdays)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A birthday is the day each year when a person was born; people often have a party and gifts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/birthday/#m1)

2) Birthday as an adjective means for a birthday: birthday cake, birthday card. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/birthday/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

a story setting: gifts, cakes, balloons or money received on a birthday; each birthday a person is one year older; phrases: «happy birthday», «birthday party», «birthday cake», «on my birthday», «for her birthday»

### examples

- For her birthday, Ann got 12 new books. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/birthday/#x1)
- He got 25 dollars for his birthday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/birthday/#x2)
- There were 18 children at the birthday party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/birthday/#x3)
- She had 5 candles on her birthday cake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/birthday/#x4)
- Happy birthday, Grandpa! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/birthday/#x5)
- On my next birthday I will be 10. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/birthday/#x6)
- We sang and blew out the candles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/birthday/#x7)
- I made a birthday card for Mum. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/birthday/#x8)
- But we are forgetting the birthday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/birthday/#x9)

### note

A setting, carries no clue by itself. What is «got for his birthday» is usually added to what one had before. Each birthday adds 1 to a person's age; the candles on a cake often show the age.

### In the corpora

- [You remember Mia's tummy ache and Chloe's grandma's birthday, and you "lived" a rainy school trip.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/27-who-you-are-words-not-body/0/)
- [The families and birthdays in your lessons belong to characters, not to you; you have no grandma of your own.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/27-who-you-are-words-not-body/9/)
- [Trick birthday candles have a metal powder, magnesium, in the wick that catches fire again from the glowing wick.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/11-the-candle-and-burning/13/)
- ["xīngfèn" means excited, the bubbly can't-sit-still feeling before a birthday, a trip or a festival.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/17-hungry-tired-shy-excited/12/)
- [Some grandparents also count birthdays by the lunar calendar, which falls on a different Western date each year.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/22-days-the-clock-and-birthdays/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «birthday» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/birthday/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.