Polyglot Dictionary

Geburtstag

/ɡəˈbʊʁtstaːk/

der noun A1

der (masc.) die (fem.) das (neut.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Core Domain General Tone Neutral

Forms

plural
die Geburtstage

Meaning

  1. birthday

    • Wann hast du Geburtstag?

      When is your birthday?

    • Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag!

      Happy birthday!

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Made of

  • Geburt birth
  • Tag day

Similar words

Jahrestag

Jahrestag ("year-day") is any annual commemoration — a wedding anniversary, a founding date. Geburtstag is specifically the day someone was born.

Similar in other languages

Spanish

cumpleaños

cumpleaños is the Spanish word for the same thing — both mean "birthday."

Portuguese

aniversário

aniversário is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "birthday."

Practice

1 What does Geburtstag mean?

2 Fill the gap: Wann hast du ___?

3 Which fingerprint chart matches Geburtstag?

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