vậy

See also: vay, váy, vây, and vaþ

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

• (Southern pronunciation spelling) dậy, dzậy
• (Southern pronunciation spelling, vowel weakening) dợ, dzợ
• (abbreviation) v
• (abbreviation, Southern) z

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [vəj˧˨ʔ]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [vəj˨˩ʔ]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [vəj˨˩˨] ~ [jəj˨˩˨]

Adverb

vậy

1. so, thus

   Synonyms: thế, rứa

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

vậy

1. intensifying sentence-final particle

   Synonyms: thế, rứa

   Làm sao hay quá vậy?

   How did you do that?

   Mày làm như mày là bác sĩ vậy.

   You're talking like you were a doctor or something.

Usage notes

• On the Internet, Southern speakers sometimes abbreviate this word to ⟨z⟩. This is coincidentally also the abbreviation of gì (“what”).

  Z z mí ba (Gì vậy mấy ba)?

  What's with you guys?