đó

See also: đồ, Đỗ, đỏ, đổ, độ, and Appendix:Variations of "do"

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Vietnamese

Etymology

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *tɔʔ (“that, there”). Cognate with Khmer ដ៏ (dɑɑ) and Bahnar to.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɗɔ˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɗɔ˨˩˦]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʔɗɔ˦˥]

Pronoun

đó (𪦆, 𪥾)

1. there

   Synonym: đấy

2. they, those (things, not people)

See also

Vietnamese demonstratives
Laurence Thompson (1965), Vietnamese Grammar
					Unspecified					Close to the speaker or newly introduced					Remote, already identified
PLACE đ- (first register)					đâu ‘wherever’					đây ‘here’					đấy ‘there’
REFERENCE n- (second register)					nào ‘whichever’					này ‘this’					nọ ‘that’
PROPORTION b- (first register)					bao ‘to whatever extent’					bây ‘to this extent’					bấy ‘to that extent’
MANNER s- (first register) v- (second register)					sao ‘however’					vầy ‘this way’					vậy ‘that way’
Nguyễn Phú Phong (1992), “Vietnamese Demonstratives Revisited”
				D• (Indefinite)				D1 (Proximal)				D2 (Medial)				D3 (Distal)
+NOM(inal)				đâu place-what				đây place-this				đấy place-that1
±NOM(inal)												đó (place-)that1				kia (place-)that2
–NOM(inal)				nào what				nầy this				nấy/ấy that1				nọ that2