birth certificate
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2.1
- noun
- /bɜrθ sɜrˈtɪfɪkɪt/
:
certificado de nacimiento
- To enroll her child in school, she needed to provide a copy of his birth certificate.
- original birth certificate
- birth certificate records
- report on birth certificates
And who I thought was my real dad, who's on my birth certificate, his name was George Bambi.
- And who I thought was my real dad, who's on my birth certificate, his name was George Bambi.
- Did she present fabricated photos and birth certificates to a judge to avoid serving time?
- And two weeks after he had passed, the parents got his new birth certificate with gender marker M.
- And because the birth certificate asks, do you know the child's biological father?
- That's that's why we see the endless push for changing of sex at birth on birth certificates.
- But what would you do if you found out that there was just birth certificates in your attic belonging to your siblings that you'd never met?
- But yeah, this box is full of like birth certificates, Social Security, I keep my passports in it, you know, things like that.
- Now go change your birth certificate or get lost.
- I then order Scott Cognose birth certificate, Social Security card.
- Most countries don't have a birth certificate, but Israel does in the Bible.
- I demand that I release my long form birth certificates.
- Now remember, I have the Italians working on changing that birth certificate.
- I'm in contact WhatsApp with two, two other kids who I've seen their birth certificates, OK.
Examples
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"Yes, Mrs. Jenny Weatherby would like a copy of her daughter's birth certificate," he said.
Fiction book (1994) -
Students are accepted with or without immunization records, birth certificates, or other documentation.
Academic text (1994) -
And I-I took out the birth certificate.
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You can read it on his birth certificate.
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It's on my birth certificate.
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Within minutes, she was holding a copy of her birth certificate in her hands.
Fiction book (1996) -
" Ben, you must go back to your mother and ask her for your birth certificate.
Fiction book (2000) -
And two weeks after he had passed, the parents got his new birth certificate with gender marker M.
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Did she show you a birth certificate, an adoption document, something substantial?
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Now they said your birth certificate has expired because in France it turns out a birth certificate only is valid for three months.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an official document stating details of a person's birth' is directly and predictably derived from combining 'birth' (the event of being born) with 'certificate' (an official paper confirming facts). This straightforward noun–noun compound follows common compositional patterns cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Birth certificate comes from the simple idea of an official paper that records a birth: birth is the moment someone is born and certificate is a paper that says it happened, so the phrase means 'an official record' of a person's birth.