gái
Noone edit
Verb edit
gái
References edit
- R. Blench, Beboid Comparative
Vietnamese edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Vietic *-keːʔ (“woman; female”); compare cái.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
- (collective) girls and women
- (collective, informal, colloquial) whores; female prostitutes
- làm gái ― to be a whore
Adjective edit
gái
- (only in fixed expressions, of people) female
- Synonym: nữ
- chị gái ― an older sister
- em gái ― a younger sister
- con gái ― a daughter / girl
- cháu gái ― a granddaughter / a niece
- bạn gái ― a young female friend / a girlfriend
- bác gái ― a parent's older sister / a woman older than one's parents
- Bác gái có nhà không ạ?
- Is she (a woman older than my parents) home?
- wife of, Mrs (when used after a pronoun or noun denoting a male person)
- 2005, Ngọc Tư Nguyễn, “Biển người mênh mông [A Vast Ocean of People]”, in Cánh đồng bất tận [Endless Fields], NXB Trẻ:
- Phi hỏi, "Vậy bác Sáu gái đâu rồi ?"
- Phi asked, "Where did Mrs Sáu go then?"
Usage notes edit
- Gender-neutral terms like bác and con can be followed by trai or gái to clarify the gender of the person referred to.
Derived terms edit
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