nào

See also: Appendix:Variations of "nao"

Mandarin

Romanization

nào (Zhuyin ㄋㄠˋ)

1. Pinyin transcription of 淖
2. Pinyin transcription of 澅
3. Pinyin transcription of 腘
4. Pinyin transcription of 腢
5. Pinyin transcription of 臋
6. Pinyin transcription of 鐃
7. Pinyin transcription of 閙
8. Pinyin transcription of 闹
9. Pinyin transcription of 鬧

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Vietnamese

Pronunciation

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

Determiner

nào

1. which

   Tôi phải đi đường nào?

   Which road do I take?

Derived terms

Derived terms

• nào giờ
• nào là
• nào ngờ
• nỗi nào
• thế nào

 

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

Particle

nào

1. 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!

Adverb

nào

1. (literary) not (negates meaning of verb)