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VietnameseEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Proto-Mon-Khmer *tɔʔ (“that, there”). Cognate with Khmer ដ៏ (dɑɑ) and Bahnar to.
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
- that place over there
- Synonym: đấy
- Đứng đó làm gì ?
- Whatcha doin' over there?
- that person/thing over there
- Đây là phòng khách. Đó là phòng ngủ.
- This is the living room. That is the bedroom.
- that idea/notion I/we've just described/discussed
- Gặp lại nhau bất kể trở ngại, bất kể thử thách. Đó là duyên số.
- People keep seeing each other again despite all the obstacles, all the challenges. That's what I call fate.
See alsoEdit
| Vietnamese demonstratives | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 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 |
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| ±NOM(inal) | đó (place-)that1 |
kia (place-)that2 | |||||||||||||||||
| –NOM(inal) | nào what |
nầy this |
nấy/ấy that1 |
nọ that2 | |||||||||||||||
ParticleEdit
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- (Southern Vietnam) emphasizes a quality that the listener may not have known; you see?; I'm telling you
- Tao mới coi tối qua. Hơi bị hay đó ! Bữa nào mày cũng dành thời gian coi đi !
- I finally saw it yesterday. Really good, I must say. You should go see it when you have the chance.
- Em mới đến nên không biết, thằng này khùng lắm đó !
- You've just moved here so you might not have known, but he's pretty screwed up in the head.
Etymology 2Edit
From Proto-Vietic *tɔːʔ (“trap”). Cognate with Toum tɔː³. Compare Lower Ta'oih tɔː ("to trap, to strain"), Kuy [Salavan] tɔː ("to trap birds, fish, etc.").
NounEdit
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