"今日はたんじょう日です。"
Translation:Today is my birthday.
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True, but it'd usually be used in context to say that it's your (or some other particular person's) birthday.
"Today's my birthday" is wrong? Jeezus, people. I know it's (sorry, it is) early days, but these hiccups are getting old.
"Today's" is a common colloquial contraction of "today is", as well as being the possessive!
Aw great! Really happy to have that vocab! How would you say "happy birthday" now?
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It's お誕生日おめでとう！ Now you can celebrate your Japanese friend's birthday!
To put it simply, there is more than one way to read/pronounce a given character. Kanji can be read using the various onyomi (derived from the Chinese) OR kunyomi (original to Japan) - there are exceptions to this rule which have a single reading, however. In the case of 誕生日 - a compound word, of sorts - 日 is read as び, whereas in the word 毎日 it is read as にち. In my experience (which is limited, but I digress) I have only seen 日 pronounced as ひ when referring specifically and singularly to the sun - though I will not be surprised if a native or more advanced learner can provide an example where this is not always the case
Rally486989, I believe that ～の日 is read as ～のひ, for example 母の日 (ははのひ) - Mother's Day.
To put it simply, there is more than one way to read/pronounce a given character. Kanji can be read using the various onyomi (derived from the Chinese) OR kunyomi (original to Japan) - there are exceptions to this rule which have a single reading, however. In the case of 誕生日 - a compound word, of sorts - 日 is read as び, whereas in the word 毎日 it is read as にち. In my experience (which is limited, but I digress) I have only seen 日 pronounced as ひ when referring specifically and singularly to the sun - though I will not be surprised if a native or more advanced learner can provide an example where this is not always the case
To put it simply, there is more than one way to read/pronounce a given character. Kanji can be read using the various onyomi (derived from the Chinese) OR kunyomi (original to Japan) - there are exceptions to this rule which have a single reading, however. In the case of 誕生日 - a compound word, of sorts - 日 is read as び, whereas in the word 毎日 it is read as にち. In my experience (which is limited, but I digress) I have only seen 日 pronounced as ひ when referring specifically and singularly to the sun - though I will not be surprised if a native or more advanced learner can provide an example where this is not always the case
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In Japanese, they often change the pronunciation slightly when combined with other words for the sake of convenience. Here, the kanji 「日」originally pronounced 「ひ」 is changed to 「び」, just like every day of the week from Monday to Sunday, they all pronounced as 「び」.
Another common example is the word「寿司」. It is usually pronounced as 「すし」when stands alone, but when combined with other words, it reads 「ずし」. For example, 「握り寿司」、「巻き寿司」。
Why doesn't duolingo always allow the user to report that their response should be correct? (I use chrome on mac)
Why would it be wrong to say "it is her/your/his/their/our birthday"? There is no possessive indicator (e.g. 私の)
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Well, you need to translate "today", but otherwise those would also be acceptable translations. Report them if they're not accepted.
The lack of any possesive indicator usually implies that its 私の whereas if it was someone elses birthday you would put in かのじょ/かれ/あなた etc
