nào
See also: Appendix:Variations of "nao"
MandarinEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- nao (nonstandard)
RomanizationEdit
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 淖.
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 澅.
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 腘.
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 腢.
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 臋.
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鐃.
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 閙.
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 闹.
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鬧.
VietnameseEdit
PronunciationEdit
DeterminerEdit
nào
- which
- Tôi phải đi đường nào?
- Which road do I take?
Usage notesEdit
- The interrogative pronoun nào follows the noun it modifies and denotes a choice which is to be made from a known set of things or people. Note that if nào follows a noun used together with a classifier, the noun may be omitted in the reply, but the classifier is required.
- Anh mua quyển từ điển nào? ― Which dictionary are you buying?
- Tôi mua quyển (từ điển) kia. ― I am buying that one.
Derived termsEdit
Derived terms
See alsoEdit
| 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 |
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| ±NOM(inal) | đó (place-)that1 |
kia (place-)that2 | |||||||||||||||||
| –NOM(inal) | nào what |
nầy this |
nấy/ấy that1 |
nọ that2 | |||||||||||||||
ParticleEdit
nào
- come on; come on now
- Nào anh em ơi !
- Hey y'all!
- Nhanh lên coi nào !
- Hurry up will ya! / Stop draggin' your feet!
- Chúng ta đi nào!
- Let's go!
AdverbEdit
nào