bà Mụ nặn nhầm

Vietnamese edit

Pronunciation edit

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaː˨˩ mu˧˨ʔ nan˧˨ʔ ɲəm˨˩]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaː˦˩ mʊw˨˩ʔ naŋ˨˩ʔ ɲəm˦˩]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaː˨˩ mʊw˨˩˨ naŋ˨˩˨ ɲəm˨˩]

Phrase edit

bà Mụ nặn nhầm

(literal) something must have gone wrong when the Midwife got this child out of their mother
(figurative) the child in question is too boyish for a girl or too girlish for a boy

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