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vô
- The second person plural familiar pronoun,you
(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Perhaps inherited from French "votre" or "vos", or derived from "vouzòt".”)
vô
- (formal, polite, in thesingular)your
- (in theplural)y'all's
vô m (pluralvôs)
- (informal)clipping ofavô;grandpa,granddad
vô
- eye dialect spelling ofvou
Undiphthongized equivalent of Northernvào.
The usage ofvào (especially in writing) by speakers of Central-Southern dialects can be attributed to borrowing from Northern dialects. On the other hand, the undiphthongized Southern form with palatal initial latter spread to the Northern and Central dialects as an interjection.
- (Northern Vietnam)vào(with diphthongization)
- (Southern Vietnam)dô(pronunciation spelling)
- (Southern Vietnam)dzô(pronunciation spelling)
vô• (無,𱍺,𠓺)
- (chiefly Central Vietnam and Southern Vietnam) toenter; togo into
- Synonym:vào
Vô nhà lấy con dao cho ba mày làm cá coi cu Thắng.- Thắng boy,go inside and fetch the knife so that your dad can start preparing some fish.
- (chiefly Central Vietnam and Southern Vietnam) totoast
- (chiefly Central Vietnam and Southern Vietnam) to gosouthwards inVietnam
- Antonym:ra
- Lý hạng ca dao 里巷歌謠
塘無䖏乂觥觥
𡶀𩇛渃碧如幀𤳰圖- Đườngvô xứ Nghệ quanh quanh,
Núi xanh nác/nước biếc như tranh hoạ/vẽ đồ. - The roadtoNghệ An is winding,
With lush mountains and blue rivers, [the scenery is] like those captured in a landscape painting.
vô• (無,𱍺,𠓺)
- (chiefly Central Vietnam and Southern Vietnam)emphasizing sentence-ending particle
- Synonym:vào
Uống cho lắmvô! Giờ đau đầu!- You drank yourself to death and now you're wondering why you're having a headache!
Mạivô!- Check it out, guys!
vô• (無,𱍺,𠓺)
- in,into,upon
Nhìnvô nhà coi, có ai hông?- Did you see anyone when you lookedinto the house?
vô• (無,𱍺,𠓺)
- cheers!(common toast used when drinking)
Một, hai, ba,dzô!- One, two, three, cheers!
Sino-Vietnamese word from無.
vô (無,𱍺)
- (prefixing nouns to form adjectives)without,-less,un-,in-
- Synonyms:bất,không
- vô văn hoá ―ill-mannered (literally, “cultureless”)
- vô tác dụng ―ineffective
vô
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of亡
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of毋
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of旡
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of忘
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of妄
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of呒
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of无
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of毌