Talking about Body Parts in Vietnamese

Lesson Transcript

In this video today, I'm going to share with you some vocabulary where you can describe your body parts.

It's going to be helpful and important, especially when you go to the hospital, you know how to describe where you get hurt or what you feel in your body.

So, let's get started to see how you can use them in Vietnamese.

Okay, the first one, do you remember?

We already had a video talking about symptoms and sickness.

Some language you can use at the hospital.

And one word that is very, very common and also a sickness, which is headache.

In Vietnamese, head is đầu

đầu

So, đầu is “a head”.

And if you want to say, I have a headache, you can say

Tôi bị đau đầu.

Ok?

Tôi bị đau đầu.

So, đầu is “the head”.

Next one, hair, you can say

Tóc

For example, if you want to say, “My hair is short”.

In Vietnamese, we say

Tóc tôi ngắn.

Tóc tôi actually means Tóc của tôi that means “my hair”, the possessive.

But we can say in a short way Tóc tôi

And ngắn means “short”.

Tóc tôi ngắn.

In this situation, you will see that we don't use “to be” verb.

We don't have to say

Tóc tôi thì ngắn.

It's not very natural. We don't need that.

So, Tóc tôi ngắn is fine.

Eyes, we can say

Mắt

Mắt, dấu sắc

Mắt

So, hai con mắt will be “two eyes” or “my eye”.

Hai con mắt, hai means “two”.

And con mắt means “eye”.

This one in Vietnamese, we say

Lông mày

Lông mày means “eyebrows”

Lông mày

And this one in Vietnamese, we say

Mũi

Dấu ngã, mũi

Mũi

These two, we say

Tai

So, “two ears” will be hai tai, hai tai. Ok?

And this one, actually, we say

Khuyên tai

Khuyên tai means “earrings”.

For mouth, we say

Miệng

dấu nặng

Ok?

It's a little bit hard.

Miệng

And for lips, we say

Môi

In general, we say đôi môi that means “lips”.

For example, if you want to say “She has nice lips.”

You can say

Cô ấy có đôi môi đẹp.

And you will see that in Vietnamese

The adjective actually goes after the noun

We don't say đẹp môi

But we say môi đẹp

So, the noun first and the adjective after

Next one is

Răng

Răng means “tooth"

And if you want to say all of the teeth in your mouth

We say

Hàm răng

Ok?

And inside, the soft one, the tongue

In Vietnamese, we say

Lưỡi

Dấu ngã, so it's a little bit harder

Lưỡi

Ok?

Next one, if you want to say skin in Vietnamese, it's

Remember, we said “She has nice lips”

And if you want to say “She has nice skin”

We say

Cô ấy có làn da đẹp.

The next part is

Cổ

Dấu hỏi ok?

You have to bend the sound a little bit

Cổ

Cổ means “neck”

And this one, you can say

Vai

Means “shoulder”

And of course, for example, we say đôi tai right because it has two

đôi mắt because it has two eyes as well

And vai, we also say đôi vai, đôi vai

Ok?

Next one, if you want to talk about this part

In Vietnamese, we say

Bắp tay

Ok?

It means “arm”

And for hands, we say

Bàn tay

“hands"

And

Ngón tay

Ngón tay means “fingers”

And it's the same with toes

Not really the same, but we also use ngón

For toes, we say

Ngón chân

But I'll talk to you later. I'll repeat it later

So for this part, this one

In Vietnamese, we say

Khuỷu tay

This is a little bit difficult sound

Khuỷu tay

Because it's gonna be “uyu"

So we have to bend your tongue a little bit

Khuỷu tay

Ok?

For belly, we say

Bụng

Dấu nặng

So you have to be very strong, very, very harsh

Bụng

For butts, we say

Mông

Ok?

Mông

For legs, we say

Chân

And for foot or feet, we say

Bàn chân

And also for toes, we say

Ngón chân

So for fingers, we have this one

In Vietnamese, we say

Ngón cái

dấu sắc, ok?

Ngón cái

This one

Ngón trỏ

This one is the middle one

We say

Ngón giữa

Giữa means “middle”

This one, we say

Ngón nhẫn

nhẫn means “ring”

Usually when we get married, we will wear rings here, right?

Ngón nhẫn

And last one

Ngón út

So for toes, actually I don't really know all the words

I think we don't have it

But for the biggest one, we say

Ngón cái

The big toe, we say

Ngón cái

cái

Ngón cái

Ok?

And the last one, this one, the smallest one

We say

Ngón út

The same with fingers

Ngón út

Yeah, I think it's over. Everything that we can see

So that's it for today

Thank you so much for watching

I hope that you enjoyed it

And we're gonna have another video talking about body organs.

So I hope that you're gonna watch it

Thank you very much again

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