Lesson Transcript

There are a lot of words in Vietnamese that can stand individually
and combined with other words but still keep the same meaning.
So in this video today, I'm gonna introduce you some compound words
which are made by two single words and they still have the same meaning.
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Áo is a shirt, dài is long. Áo dài, the long shirt,
which is the Vietnamese ảo dài, the traditional dress of Vietnam.
Áo dài. So basically, it looks like a shirt, a very long shirt,
and it covers all the woman's body.
Vietnamese traditional dress or custom.
Bàn ghế. Bàn means table and ghế means chair.
So when you say bàn ghế, it means furniture, including chairs and tables in general.
Dễ chịu. Dễ means easy and chịu means bear or endure.
So dễ chịu means easy to bear. It means pleasant in Vietnamese.
So something is very nice, very comfortable, very pleasant, we can say dễ chịu.
Now next one, quần áo. Quần means trousers or pants and áo means shirt.
Quần áo means clothes in general.
I don't have a lot of clothes.
Nhà means a house, ăn means to eat. Nhà ăn means dining hall.
Nhà ăn ở trường cấp 3 của tôi rất rộng. The dining hall of my high school is very spacious.
Tốt đẹp. Tốt means good. Đẹp means beautiful. Tốt đẹp means fine. Something is fine.
Great or good. Tốt đẹp. Tôi muốn dành những gì tốt đẹp nhất cho cô ấy.
Means I want to give her the finest things.
Đi lại. Đi means to go and lại means to come back. So đi lại means like to move from one place to another.
Đi lại. Nhu cầu đi lại của người Việt rất lớn. It means like the need of traveling or commuting
from one place to another of Vietnamese people is very high.
Xe lửa. Xe lửa. Xe means vehicle. Lửa means fire. Xe lửa means train. Xe lửa. Tầu hỏa.
Before we used to call it xe lửa but now we say tầu hỏa, train.
Xe đạp. Xe đạp. Xe đạp. Xe đạp means bicycle. Xe means vehicle and đạp means kick.
Xe đạp. Trẻ con rất thích đi xe đạp. Trẻ con rất thích đi xe đạp.
Trẻ con rất thích đi xe đạp. Kids really enjoy riding bicycles.
Hoa hồng. Hoa means flower and hồng means pink. Hoa hồng is rose.
Hoa hồng. Hoa hồng là biểu tượng của tình yêu.
Rose is a symbol of love.
Trả lời. Trả lời. Trả lời. Trả lời means to respond or to reply but actually trả
means like to return and lời means words. Trả lời is like to return words so response or
reply. Nhớ trả lời tôi sớm nhá. Nhớ trả lời tôi sớm nhá.
Nhớ trả lời tôi sớm nhá means don't forget to reply or respond to me early. Remember we
use nhớ at the end of the sentence to ask someone to do something right? So nhớ trả lời tôi sớm nhá.
Ngọc chai. Ngọc chai. Ngọc chai means like the pearl, the round object inside the shell of the
oysters right? And chai is the oysters. Ngọc chai is like the pearl in the oyster. Ngọc chai. Ngọc chai
là một món trang sức rất quý giá. Ngọc chai là một món trang sức
rất quý giá. Pearl is a very precious jewelry.
Next one is dày dép. Dày dép. Dày dép. Dày dép means footwear and dày actually means shoe.
Dép means sandal. Both of them refer to things that we can wear on our foot right? So dày dép
In sentence,
this is the biggest footwear store in Hà Nội.
Ba mẹ. Ba mẹ. Ba means father and mẹ means mother. Ba mẹ,
parents. Ba mẹ tôi là người Bắc. Ba mẹ tôi là người Bắc. Ba mẹ tôi là người Bắc. Means my parents are
Northern.
means birthday cake right so in sentence
Bánh sinh nhật là thứ không thể thiếu trong các bữa tiệc sinh nhật.
Bánh sinh nhật là thứ không thể thiếu trong các bữa tiệc sinh nhật.
Birthday cakes are indispensable in every birthday party.
Next one, thầy cô. Thầy cô. Thầy cô. Thầy means a male teacher and cô means a female teacher.
So thầy cô means teachers in general.
November 28th is the day of all teachers.
Sinh đẹp. Sinh đẹp. Sinh means pretty and đẹp means beautiful. Sinh đẹp is just beautiful
in general. Sinh đẹp. Cô ấy là một người phụ nữ rất sinh đẹp. Cô ấy là một người phụ nữ
She's a very beautiful woman.
is like humid and ướt means wet so ẩm ướt is like the situation when the humidity is very high
The weather recently has been very humid.
S. Đất nước Việt Nam có hình chữ S means the Vietnam country is in the S shape.
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