các-ten
Vietnamese edit
Etymology edit
French cartel, German Kartell, used as a calque of Russian картель (kartelʹ).
Noun edit
các-ten
- (communism, Leninism, economics, business, capitalism) a cartel
Usage notes edit
- As with many loanwords whose foreignness can still be felt, Southerners tend to pronounce the <n> as /n/, not as */ŋ/.