The Vietnamese word for one is
một
Translations for one and their definitions
| một | |
| 1. num. vi-pos, numeral, ?, 没, 沒, 蔑 | |
| 2. num. one | |
| 3. n. one | |
| 4. n. (colloquial) the eleventh lunar month | |
| 5. adj. only; sole | |
| 6. adj. for one person; single | |
| 7. adj. topics, One |
| ta | |
| 1. pron. we; us | |
| 2. adj. (informal) "our", Vietnamese, as opposed to Tây, Tàu or Xiêm | |
| Tết ta - Vietnamese Lunar New Year |
| người ta | |
| 1. n. people in general | |
| 2. pron. (colloquial) they/them, other people in general | |
| Con gái người ta vừa giỏi vừa đẹp, chẳng bù cho con nhà mình. - Other people's daughters are talented and beautiful. Alas, ours is anything but. | |
| 3. pron. he/him / she/her / they/them, that/those specific person/people, as opposed to me/us | |
| Qua nhà người ta chè chén cả đêm không biết ngượng à ? - You stayed at their house partying all night. Have you no shame? | |
| Anh đem đồ đạc này mau đưa cho người ta mang về đi. - Quickly bring the stuff back to him. | |
| Người ta có coi mình ra cái gì đâu! - They don't respect us at all! | |
| 4. pron. (familiar, humorous, or intimate, or endearing, or disdainful) I/me | |
| Kệ người ta ! Người đâu mà vô duyên ! - Nunya! You're so nosy, you know that? | |
| Sao cứ chọc người ta hoài? - Why do you guys keep teasing me? | |
| Anh ngốc quá à ! Người ta gợi ý đến thế mà còn không hiểu ! - You dummy! You couldn't take a single hint I gave! | |
| Đi đâu để người ta chờ mãi. - Where did you go? I've been waiting here forever. |
| mình | |
| 1. n. a torso | |
| đầu, mình, tứ chi - the head, the torso, and the four limbs | |
| 2. n. (by extension) a body | |
| mình lấm lết máu - with one's body covered in blood | |
| nhức mình - with aching all over one's body | |
| 3. pron. (friendly, polite) I/me (used when talking to someone roughly of the speaker's age) | |
| 4. pron. oneself (used especially to substitute whatever preceding pronoun or kinship term to avoid repetition) | |
| Biết mình biết người / Biết người biết ta, trăm trận trăm thắng. - Knowing yourself and knowing others, a hundred battles and a hundred victories. | |
| Nó cứ tự trách mình mãi. - She keeps blaming herself. | |
| 5. pron. (narratology) I/me (used as a literary device showing that the speaker is monologuing with themselves) | |
| Nhật kí thân yêu, hôm nay mình... - Dear diary, today I... | |
| 6. pron. (intimate, inclusive) we/us | |
| lớp mình - our class | |
| Hay mình đi công viên đi! - How about us going to the park? | |
| 7. pron. (northern Vietnam, endearing) you (used for one's spouse) | |
| Chồng: Mình ơi, anh yêu mình.Vợ: Mình ơi, em cũng yêu mình. - Husband: Dear, I love you.Wife: Dear, I love you too. | |
| 8. adv. (colloquial) only | |
| Năm ngoái, có mình Nhân lên đại học. - Last year, only Nhân started attending university. | |
| mình mình - of only oneself |
| ai | |
| 1. pron. who | |
| Bạn là ai? - Who are you? | |
| Ai (mà) biết. - Who knows? / How should I know? | |
| 2. pron. whoever | |
| 3. pron. someone else | |
| 4. pron. one, a person | |
| 5. pron. (rhetorical) nobody |
| duy nhất | |
| 1. adj. sole; unique |
| cùng | |
| 1. n. the end, limit | |
| cố gắng đến cùng - to try one's best until the end | |
| Thanh tác vụ nằm ở dưới cùng màn hình. - The task bar is at the bottom of the screen. | |
| 2. conj. with | |
| 3. conj. and | |
| 4. adj. same | |
| 5. adj. destitute, without resources |
| ông | |
| 1. n. grandfather; grandpa | |
| 2. n. Sir; Mr | |
| 3. pron. you, my grandfather | |
| 4. pron. (familiar) you, an old man | |
| 5. pron. (formal) you, a man about 40 or older | |
| 6. pron. (informal) you, a dude | |
| Ông nghĩ sao vậy !? - The heck were you thinking, man!? | |
| 7. pron. I/me, your grandfather | |
| 8. pron. (familiar) I/me, an old man | |
| 9. pron. (narratology) he/him, an admirable/lovable old or deceased man | |
| 10. classifier. (literary) Indicates stars |
| thứ | |
| 1. adj. inferior in quality, second, second vice, under | |
| 2. n. order, rank, sort, type, kind, category | |
| 3. n. thing | |
| 4. classifier. (Indicates things of the same category, such as languages (vi-l, tiếng)) | |
| 5. v. (chiefly in compounds, literary) to pardon, to forgive |
| cái | |
| 1. classifier. vi-cls, 丐, ? | |
| 2. classifier. Indicates an inanimate, tangible thing | |
| Cái răng cái tóc là góc con người. - Essentially, teeth and hair tell how good one looks. | |
| 3. classifier. (obsolete) (Indicates animals) | |
| 4. classifier. (colloquial) (Precedes another classifier (any one but “cái” itself), effectively acting as a focus marker, sometimes conveying a connotation of deprecation, especially if persons are referred to.) | |
| Cầm cái con dao này đưa cho mẹ. - Take this knife and hand it to your mom. | |
| Cái thằng đần thối này! - You moron! | |
| 5. n. (only in compounds) a thing; a whatsit | |
| cái đánh trứng - the thing for whisking eggs | |
| cái đẹp - the beautiful thing / the thing of beauty | |
| cái cao cả - the great/grand(iose) thing | |
| 6. n. the solid bits of a broth | |
| Canh này thì chỉ có nước là ngon, còn cái thì dở ẹc. - As for this broth, only the liquid part is good, as for its solid bits, they suck. | |
| 7. adj. (of a non-human and non-avian species of animal or plant or their reproductive organs) female | |
| hoa cái - carpellate flower; female flower | |
| nhị cái - a pistil | |
| 8. adj. (now chiefly in compounds) big, large, main | |
| sông cái - the big river | |
| ngón chân cái - the big toe |
| bà | |
| 1. n. a grandmother | |
| 2. n. an old woman; an old lady | |
| Hai Bà Trưng - the Two Ladies Trưng | |
| 3. pron. you, my grandmother | |
| 4. pron. (informal, familiar) you, an old woman | |
| 5. pron. (formal) you, a woman about 40 or older | |
| 6. pron. I/me, your grandmother | |
| 7. pron. (informal, familiar) I/me, an old woman | |
| 8. pron. (informal) you, a gal | |
| Bà chỉ tôi chỗ này với. - Girl, can you help me with this one? | |
| 9. pron. (narratology) she/her, an admirable/lovable old/deceased woman |
| thằng | |
| 1. classifier. vi-cls, 倘, ?, 尙, ?, 繩, 绳 | |
| 2. classifier. (disrespectful) indicates male people | |
| hai thằng, một con - two guys, one girl | |
| 3. classifier. (colloquial) character, personality (not referring to a person, but pretending to) | |
| Cái thằng này là bình phương của cái thằng này - This guy is the square of this guy |
| loại | |
| 1. n. species, kind, type, category, sort | |
| 2. v. to reject, to eliminate, to fail |
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