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Can I ask what the difference between birthday and birth date is in Turkish? I use them interchangeably in English
Kinda what Rania says, they're not really interchangeable in English. I'd ask a girl in a bar her birthday, but it would be creepy to ask her birth date (or more commonly "date of birth"). If she came into my work and I needed her details it would be the other way round :)
I do not know for sure but I guess birth date is more formal .. you can be asked about your birth date officially in the court house or police station.. it make a bit more sense to be date not day!
Tarih is a persian word that means date In turkish tarikh converted to tarih
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Boo, this is Duolingo, the land of weird sentences. Have you met Duo Baykuşu, King of this Land, speaker of nonsense?
This is not a weird sentence/phrase. "Date of Birth" is "Doğum Tarihi".
You can see this on a Turkish Passports/ID cards, on Vikipedi (Turkish Wikipedia), or on any Turkish forms that you'd fill out, etc.
Of all the sentences/phrases on Duo, this is probably one of the most useful :-)
