юбиле́й юбилей

nounmasculineinanimate

Meanings

  1. anniversary
  2. anniversary, jubilee, anniversary celebration, birthday
  3. jubilee

Usage notes

День рождение is a generic term for someone's birthday on any given year. Юбилей can also mean birthday, but it is usually reserved only for numerically significant years, such as 18 or those divisible by 10 or 25.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeюбиле́йюбиле́и
Genitiveюбиле́яюбиле́ев
Dativeюбиле́ююбиле́ям
Accusativeюбиле́йюбиле́и
Instrumentalюбиле́емюбиле́ями
Prepositionalюбиле́еюбиле́ях

Examples

  • С юбиле́ем Алексея Дударева поздра́вил Президе́нт Белару́си Александр Лукашенко.
    Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko congratulated Alexei Dudarev upon his birthday.
  • Э́то был конце́рт к восьмидеся́тому юбиле́ю сэ́ра Э́нтони, и все хоте́ли биле́т.
    It was Sir Anthony's eightieth birthday concert and everybody wanted a ticket.
  • С юбиле́ем!
    Happy anniversary!

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