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 →

2) Birthday as an adjective means for a birthday: birthday cake, birthday card. tree →

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 →
• He got 25 dollars for his birthday. tree →
• There were 18 children at the birthday party. tree →
• She had 5 candles on her birthday cake. tree →
• Happy birthday, Grandpa! tree →
• On my next birthday I will be 10. tree →
• We sang and blew out the candles. tree →
• I made a birthday card for Mum. tree →
• But we are forgetting the birthday. tree →

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.
• The families and birthdays in your lessons belong to characters, not to you; you have no grandma of your own.
• Trick birthday candles have a metal powder, magnesium, in the wick that catches fire again from the glowing wick.
• "xīngfèn" means excited, the bubbly can't-sit-still feeling before a birthday, a trip or a festival.
• Some grandparents also count birthdays by the lunar calendar, which falls on a different Western date each year.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «birthday» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.