"Amanhã é aniversário dela."
Translation:Tomorrow is her birthday.
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However, I think it shouldn't be accepted because "birthday" only refers to people's birthday in English. "Anniversary" is for places, events, etc. And if a thing possess something it's not "her" possession; it's its possession.
And even in Portuguese "Amanhã é aniversário dela" will refer to a person in 99% of the cases. If I would inform someone that my city's anniversary is tommorow I would probably "Amanhã é aniversário da cidade" or "Amanhã é aniversário de [city's name]". In fact, I can only think in a situation that "Amanhã é aniversário dela" would refer to something else: "Essa cidade é tão linda. E amanhã é aniversário dela". However, in English it will be "This city is so beautiful. And tommorow is its birthday", not "her".
Hm, I wondered about it a bit, and I was able to think a situation in which "her anniversary" would be fine. One can say "Today is my wedding anniversary. Tommorow is her anniversary" (although probably one would say "Tomorrow is hers" in fact or "Tomorrow is her wedding anniversary").
However, it's an unlikely scenario and an exception, so I still mantain my first opinion.
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Is there another word for birthday? I know in Spanish we say "cumpleaños" or "aniversario"
You are right, no respectable dictionary has an entry for that word. The "Dicionário Informal" has though http://www.dicionarioinformal.com.br/niver/. I'm pretty sure it should have the spelling "níver" (with an acute accent) to roughly keep the sound it has in the original word.
In spanish we do not use "aniversario" as birthday. aniversario, ria. (Del lat. anniversarĭus 'que se repite cada año'). 1. adj. p. us. anual. 2. m. Día en que se cumplen años de algún suceso. 3. m. Oficio y misa que se celebran en sufragio de un difunto el día en que se cumple el año de su fallecimiento. Real Academia Española © Todos los derechos reservados
D sounds like /dj/ when it is followed by the letter i or DE at the end of a word, because then the E sounds like i (dia, diálogo, verde - all these D sounds like dj) All the rest (da, de, do, du) sounds similar to D in English (dedo, dado). (sidenote: in some regions in Brazil, the letter D sounds exactly the same no matter if it's followed by the letter i - they all sound like D not dj.)
The problem is that some hints, although correct, are not relevant to the sentence presented. That's true here. When "É" begins a sentence or phrase, "It is" or "It's" is often the best translation, but with a defined subject then "is/are" is the correct choice. For example, "É uma emergência" (It's an emergency), "Ela é inteligente" (She is clever) and "Você é minha amiga" (You are my friend).
Thanks for your information! (It's already the second time you gave me advice, so take a lingot! Also, I have more than enough anyway. :')) The thing that makes it even more hard is that English is not my first language, so it's difficult for me to not make stupid mistakes like these. Therefore I would like a Portuguese course in my own language very much, but unfortunately still no seems this is going to happen. But still, I find it very frustrating these hints are wrong, and already submitted a lot of reports about this.
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