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See also:Appendix:Variations of "metro"

English

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Etymology 1

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FromFrenchmétro, clipping ofmétropolitain (fromAncient Greekμήτηρ(mḗtēr,“mother”) +πόλις(pólis,“city”)), as in theChemin de fer métropolitain, an early name for the Paris Métro. This name was a direct translation of "Metropolitan Railway", which was the original name of the earliest part of theLondon Underground, constructed in 1863.

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Noun

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metro (pluralmetros)

  1. (general) Arapid transit rail transport system, or a train in such systems, generally underground and serving a metropolitan area.
    Synonyms:(US, Canada, Scotland, South Africa)subway,(London)underground,underground railway,(London slang)Tube,tube
    • 2000, Frederick Parkins,The NATO Opposition,→ISBN, page27:
      Recalling that Davide Lungo returned the van at the airport, Pizo descended the nearby stairs to the underground metro, and boarded the nextmetro stopping there.
    • 2014, Lily Sergueiew,I Worked Alone: Diary of a Double Agent in World War II Europe,→ISBN:
      I hurry to the underground. ... I am waiting for the nextmetro; I'll take it.
    • 2017, Pam Taylor,399 Days: Our European Escapade,→ISBN:
      What we entered into here was well lit and had clean silver curvy walls that ended in nice automatic elevators that took you underground. The walls are not infested with graffiti and advertisements; they were clean and shiny. We waited on nice benches until themetro arrived.
  2. (less common) An urbanrapid transit rail transport system, normally with lighter track and light trains (i.e. anS-Bahn or similar),or a train in such systems.
    • 2006, C. A. Brebbia, V. Dolezel,Urban Transport XII: Urban Transport and the Environment in the 21st Century, page227:
      Informs how long the passenger has to wait for the nextmetro
    • 2008, Brandon Wilson,Along the Templar Trail: Seven Million Steps for Peace,→ISBN, page75:
      With the weather clear and warm for a change, I decided to catch the nextmetro to the outskirts of town by myself.
    • 2015, Pratyush Sinha,Love in Metro: Story of Love and Ego,→ISBN:
      I boarded the Yellow Line Metro, beaming with confidence. I got down at Rajiv Chowk to continue my journey towards Noida City Centre (NCC). The nextmetro arrived.
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Translations
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underground railway—seesubway
train of underground railway—seesubway

Etymology 2

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Clipping ofmetropolitan.

Noun

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metro (pluralmetros)

  1. Ametropolitan area.
    • 2019 August 12, Derek Thompson, “America's Hot New Job Is Being a Rich Person's Servant”, inThe Atlantic‎[1]:
      In an age of persistently high inequality, work in high-costmetros catering to the whims of the wealthy—grooming them, stretching them, feeding them, driving them—has become one of the fastest-growing industries.

Adjective

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metro (comparativemoremetro,superlativemostmetro)

  1. metropolitan
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Anagrams

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Aragonese

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Noun

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metro m

  1. metre

Catalan

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Etymology

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Clipping ofmetropolità.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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metro m (pluralmetros)

  1. metro(train)

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Crimean Tatar

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Noun

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metro

  1. metro,undergroundrailway

Declension

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Declension ofmetro
nominativemetro
genitivemetronıñ
dativemetroğa
accusativemetronı
locativemetroda
ablativemetrodan

References

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  • Mirjejev, V. A., Usejinov, S. M. (2002)Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎[2], Simferopol: Dolya,→ISBN

Czech

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Noun

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metro n

  1. metro,subway(underground railway)

Declension

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Declension ofmetro (hard neuter reducible)
singularplural
nominativemetrometra
genitivemetrameter
dativemetrumetrům
accusativemetrometra
vocativemetrometra
locativemetrumetrech
instrumentalmetremmetry

Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromFrenchmétro, frommétropolitain inchemin de fermétropolitain.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmeː.troː/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation:me‧tro

Noun

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metro m (pluralmetro's,diminutivemetrootje n)

  1. anundergroundrailway or underground-railwaysystem, asubway, ametro
  2. an underground-railwaytrain

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Esperanto

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Noun

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metro (accusative singularmetron,pluralmetroj,accusative pluralmetrojn)

  1. metre(unit of measurement)
  2. (poetry)metrum

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Finnish

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Helsinki Metro

Etymology

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FromFrenchmétro.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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metro

  1. anunderground, asubway, aTube or ametro
    Synonym:maanalainen

Declension

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Inflection ofmetro (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominativemetrometrot
genitivemetronmetrojen
partitivemetroametroja
illativemetroonmetroihin
singularplural
nominativemetrometrot
accusativenom.metrometrot
gen.metron
genitivemetronmetrojen
partitivemetroametroja
inessivemetrossametroissa
elativemetrostametroista
illativemetroonmetroihin
adessivemetrollametroilla
ablativemetroltametroilta
allativemetrollemetroille
essivemetronametroina
translativemetroksimetroiksi
abessivemetrottametroitta
instructive—metroin
comitativeSee the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms ofmetro(Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
first-person singular possessor
singularplural
nominativemetronimetroni
accusativenom.metronimetroni
gen.metroni
genitivemetronimetrojeni
partitivemetroanimetrojani
inessivemetrossanimetroissani
elativemetrostanimetroistani
illativemetroonimetroihini
adessivemetrollanimetroillani
ablativemetroltanimetroiltani
allativemetrollenimetroilleni
essivemetronanimetroinani
translativemetroksenimetroikseni
abessivemetrottanimetroittani
instructive——
comitative—metroineni
second-person singular possessor
singularplural
nominativemetrosimetrosi
accusativenom.metrosimetrosi
gen.metrosi
genitivemetrosimetrojesi
partitivemetroasimetrojasi
inessivemetrossasimetroissasi
elativemetrostasimetroistasi
illativemetroosimetroihisi
adessivemetrollasimetroillasi
ablativemetroltasimetroiltasi
allativemetrollesimetroillesi
essivemetronasimetroinasi
translativemetroksesimetroiksesi
abessivemetrottasimetroittasi
instructive——
comitative—metroinesi

Derived terms

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compounds

Further reading

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Anagrams

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Galician

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed fromFrenchmètre, fromAncient Greekμέτρον(métron,“measure”).

Noun

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metro m (pluralmetros)

  1. (measure)meter
  2. (measuring instruments)tape measure,measuring tape
  3. (poetry, music)metre(the rhythm or measure in verse and musical composition)
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed fromFrenchmétro, clipping ofmétropolitain.

Noun

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metro m (pluralmetros)

  1. (transport)metro
    Synonym:metropolitano

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Ido

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IdoWikipedia has an article on:
Wikipediaio

Pronunciation

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Noun

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metro (pluralmetri)

  1. metre(unit of measurement)
  2. metrum of poetry

Italian

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Etymology 1

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ItalianWikipedia has an article on:
Wikipediait

FromLatinmetrum(“a measure”), fromAncient Greekμέτρον(métron).

Noun

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metro m (pluralmetri)

  1. (unit of measure)metre,meter
  2. ruler,measure
  3. yardstick,criterion
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Etymology 2

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Clipping ofmetropolitana.

Noun

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metro f (invariable)

  1. subway(US),underground(UK),Tube(the London underground)
    Synonym:metrò

Anagrams

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Latin

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Noun

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metrō

  1. dative/ablativesingular ofmetrum

Polish

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PolishWikipedia has an article on:
Wikipediapl

Etymology

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Borrowed fromFrenchmétro, clipping ofmétropolitain, fromAncient Greekμήτηρ(mḗtēr,“mother”) +πόλις(pólis,“city”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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metro n

  1. underground,subway,metro(underground railway)

Declension

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Declension ofmetro
singular
nominativemetro
genitivemetra
dativemetru
accusativemetro
instrumentalmetrem
locativemetrze
vocativemetro

Further reading

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  • metro inWielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • metro in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation:me‧tro

Etymology 1

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FromFrenchmètre, fromLatinmetrum, fromAncient Greekμέτρον(métron,“measure”).

Noun

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metro m (pluralmetros)

  1. (measure)metre
Coordinate terms
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  • vara(historical Portuguese equivalent),jarda(American equivalent)
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Descendants
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Etymology 2

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FromFrenchmétro, clipping ofmétropolitain.

Alternative forms

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Noun

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metro m (pluralmetros)

  1. (Portugal)underground,subway
    Synonym:metropolitano

Romanian

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Noun

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metro n (pluralmetrouri)

  1. Alternative form ofmetrou

Declension

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Declension ofmetro
singularplural
indefinitedefiniteindefinitedefinite
nominative-accusativemetrometroulmetrourimetrourile
genitive-dativemetrometrouluimetrourimetrourilor
vocativemetroulemetrourilor

Serbo-Croatian

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Noun

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mètrō m (Cyrillic spellingмѐтро̄)

  1. metro

Declension

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Declension ofmetro
singularplural
nominativemètrōmetroi
genitivemetròametroa
dativemetroumetroima
accusativemetrometroe
vocativemetrometroi
locativemetroumetroima
instrumentalmetroommetroima

Slovak

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromFrenchmétro.

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Noun

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metro n

  1. metro

Declension

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Declension ofmetro (patternmesto)
singularplural
nominativemetrometrá
genitivemetrametier
dativemetrumetrám
accusativemetrometrá
locativemetremetrách
instrumentalmetrommetrami

Further reading

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  • “metro”, inSlovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak),https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk,2003–2025

Spanish

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SpanishWikipedia has an article on:
Wikipediaes
Self-retracting metal tape measure (US customary)
A sliced tape measure

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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SpanishWikipedia has an article on:
Wikipediaes

Borrowed fromFrenchmètre, fromAncient Greekμέτρον(métron,“measure”).

Noun

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metro m (pluralmetros)

  1. (measure)meter
  2. (measuring instruments)tape measure,measuring tape
    Synonym:cinta métrica
  3. (measuring instruments)folding rule
    Synonym:metro plegable
  4. (poetry, music)metre(the rhythm or measure in verse and musical composition)
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  • (unit of length):vara(historical Spanish equivalent)
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Descendants
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Etymology 2

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SpanishWikipedia has an article on:
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Borrowed fromFrenchmétro, clipping ofmétropolitain.

Noun

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metro m (pluralmetros)

  1. (transport)metro
    Synonym:(Argentina)subte
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Tagalog

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromSpanishmetro.

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Noun

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metro (Baybayin spellingᜋᜒᜆ᜔ᜇᜓ)

  1. meter(unit of length)
  2. meter(measuring instrument)
    Synonym:kontador
  3. (by extension)taximeter
  4. (by extension)tape measure,measuring tape

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Turkish

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Etymology 1

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FromFrenchmétro.

Noun

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metro (definite accusativemetroyu,pluralmetrolar)

  1. subway

Etymology 2

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FromItalianmetro.

Noun

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metro (definite accusativemetroyu,pluralmetrolar)

  1. meter,metre

References

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  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “metro”, inNişanyan Sözlük
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013),The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık,→ISBN

Veps

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Etymology

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(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)

Noun

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metro

  1. metro(underground railway)

Inflection

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Inflection ofmetro (inflection type 1/ilo)
nominative sing.metro
genitive sing.metron
partitive sing.metrod
partitive plur.metroid
singularplural
nominativemetrometrod
accusativemetronmetrod
genitivemetronmetroiden
partitivemetrodmetroid
essive-instructivemetronmetroin
translativemetroksmetroikš
inessivemetrosmetroiš
elativemetrospäimetroišpäi
illativemetrohometroihe
adessivemetrolmetroil
ablativemetrolpäimetroilpäi
allativemetrolemetroile
abessivemetrotametroita
comitativemetronkemetroidenke
prolativemetrodmemetroidme
approximative Imetronnometroidenno
approximative IImetronnoksmetroidennoks
egressivemetronnopäimetroidennopäi
terminative Imetrohosaimetroihesai
terminative IImetrolesaimetroilesai
terminative IIImetrossai—
additive Imetrohopäimetroihepäi
additive IImetrolepäimetroilepäi

References

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  • Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “метро”, inUz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎[4], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Vietnamese

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Etymology

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FromEnglishmetro.

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Noun

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metro

  1. metro (system or train)
    Đi thửmetro Bến Thành.
    To try travelling on Ben Thanhmetro.
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