¿qué día es tu cumpleaños?
The English phrase "what day is your birthday?" is translated into Spanish as ¿qué día es tu cumpleaños?
This phrase is used to ask someone for the specific date of their birth anniversary.
What does it mean word for word?
The word for birthday, cumpleaños, is a compound noun. It combines the verb cumplir, meaning to fulfill or complete and años, meaning years.
How does it change in a sentence?
While ¿qué día es tu cumpleaños? asks for the specific day, ¿cuándo es tu cumpleaños? is a more common way to ask for the date in general.
Did you know?
- In many Spanish-speaking cultures, a birthday celebration is not complete without la mordida, where the birthday person's face is pushed into the cake.
- Although English and Spanish both use the word 'day', the Spanish día comes from a root meaning 'heaven' or 'sky' in Proto-Indo-European, whereas English 'day' has a different origin.
- In some regions, the phrase cumpleaños feliz is used not just as a greeting, but as the title of the song sung during the celebration.
Examples in context
- ¡Buenos días! Disculpe, ¿cuál es la fecha de su cumpleaños?Good morning! Excuse me, what is the date of your birthday?
- Sr. García, ¿en qué día cae su cumpleaños?Mr. Garcia, on which day does your birthday fall?
- ¡Hola Laura! ¿Cuándo es tu cumpleaños?Hi Laura! When is your birthday?
- Mi cumpleaños es el diez de mayo.My birthday is May 10th.
- ¿qué día es tu cumpleaños?What day is your birthday?
- No recuerdo, ¿qué día es tu cumpleaños?I don't remember, what day is your birthday?
Sources
- Word origins: Wiktionary entries cumpleaños, día, es, qué, tu, CC BY-SA 4.0.
