người Mĩ

Vietnamese edit

The spelling of this entry has been normalized from người Mỹ according to the principles established by Wiktionary's editor community as described at Wiktionary:About Vietnamese or recent spelling standards of the language.

Alternative forms edit

người Mỹ

Etymology edit

người (“person”) +‎ nước Mĩ (“United States”)

Pronunciation edit

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ŋɨəj˨˩ mi˦ˀ˥]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [ŋɨj˦˩ mɪj˧˨]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ŋɨj˨˩ mɪj˨˩˦]

Noun edit

người Mĩ

(countable) American (person born in or citizen of the United States)
(uncountable) the American people (the people of the United States)

Usage notes edit

This term typically only refers to persons of the United States; to refer to persons of the Americas, người Bắc Mĩ (“North American”), người Nam Mĩ (“South American”), or người châu Mĩ (“American”) may be used instead.

Synonyms edit

người Hoa Kỳ (rare)