mốt
See also: Appendix:Variations of "mot"
Vietnamese edit
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Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
mốt
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Etymology 2 edit
Related to một (“one”). Compare Khmu pŋmoːj ("day after tomorrow") and moːj ("one"), Sa'och [of Kanchanaburi] mṳːj ("day after tomorrow") and mṳːˀj ("one").
Noun edit
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Etymology 3 edit
Variant of một.
Numeral edit
- (only in compounds or fixed expressions) one; -one
- Mốt hai mốt hai mốt hai mốt!
- One two one two one two one!
- hai (mươi) mốt / hăm mốt ― twenty-one
- một trăm mốt ― one hundred and ten (thousand dongs)
- một triệu mốt ― one million one hundred thousand (dongs)
Usage notes edit
- Mốt is used to say "one" as in "twenty-one", "thirty-one", ..., "ninety-one", not in "one hundred and one" or "one thousand and one"; "eleven" is mười một, not *mười mốt.