vietnamese

«vietnamese» in Mova's school dictionary: From or to do with Vietnam, a country in South-East Asia — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adjective (Vietnamese); noun (a Vietnamese, the Vietnamese — plural the same; Vietnamese, the language)

meaning for a pupil

1) From or to do with Vietnam, a country in South-East Asia. tree →

2) A person from Vietnam or of Vietnamese family. tree →

3) The language spoken in Vietnam. tree →

sense in the lessons

In geography and everyday life: Vietnamese food (pho, spring rolls), Vietnamese families in Australia, the USA, Canada and the UK. In language lessons: Vietnamese is written with the Latin alphabet plus many accent marks and has tones.

examples

• We ate Vietnamese noodle soup called pho. tree →
• My friend's grandparents speak Vietnamese at home. tree →
• Vietnamese uses tones, so the same sound can mean different things. tree →
• The Vietnamese coast is very long and thin. tree →
• There is a Vietnamese bakery near our school. tree →
• She is learning to write Vietnamese with all its accents. tree →

note

Always written with a capital V: Vietnamese. Plural of the noun for people is the same: one Vietnamese, many Vietnamese (more often «Vietnamese people»). Say vee-et-nuh-MEEZ.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «vietnamese» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.