"우리는 생일이 똑같아요!"
Translation:Our birthdays are the same!
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I understand where you're coming from because I'm here learning too. To me it seems like the English sentence "our birthdays are exactly the same" is redundant, because the term "birthday" already implies a full and exact day. So that English can be marked wrong IMO. I'm not versed enough in Korean to know the other side
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You are correct.
In Korean, often a word can have different meanings or usages. Adding an extra particle helps to clarify or emphasize its meaning. This is such a case.
같다 [adj] = (be) alike, close, much the same
▪[N이/가] 같다 = (be) much alike in N; (be) much of the same N
▪[와/과] 같다 = (be) similar to N; (be) much the same as N; (be) closely resembling
▪ ᆯ 것 같다 = it seems like; it feels like. (Used to "express an assumption, guess, or supposition; also used in hyperbolic statements about one's emotional state" [- Wiktionary])
똑 [adv] (comes from 똑, 'drip'] like drops of water. (cf: like 'two peas in a pod') = exactly; equally
똑같다 [adj] = (be) identical; the same
Would this imply the year as well, or just the day? Or would that be based more on context/clarification in the situation?
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Like in English, 생일 ( =birthday ) is only about day & month.
It is not the same as 생년월일 ( = Date of birth ) which includes the year of birth.
It's more like "we have the same birthday" rather than "our birthday is the same".
think of it as "as for us, the birthdays are the same." korean language constructs don't map one-to-one to English