Tày

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Ultimately from Chinese ().

Noun

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các (, )

  1. pavilion
    Synonym: rạn
    lườn cácstilt house
    khẩncácto go upstairs in the stilt house
    Cần dú nưa các, vài dú tẩư lang
    People stay in the house, buffalos stay under the floor
    phả phạ kẻo mừa keo, khẩu tèo các
    clouds fly to the south, rice jumps upstairs
  2. (collective) houses

Etymology 2

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Ultimately from Chinese .

Determiner

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các ()

  1. Plural marker
    Synonym: bại

Etymology 3

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Ultimately from Chinese .

Verb

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các

  1. to place something against something
    các slảo phjác slửato hang a clothes-drying pole
    mừ các phjáchands placed on the forehead
    bấu ngần, bấu chèn kha các pha(please add an English translation of this usage example)
  2. to place something to reach something up high
    Synonym: cái
    các đuâyto place a ladder

References

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  • Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎[1][2] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
  • Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎[3] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội
  • Léopold Michel Cadière (1910) Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français [Tày-Vietnamese-French Dictionary]‎[4] (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient

Vietnamese

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Sino-Vietnamese word from (each, individually, every, all).

Determiner

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các

  1. Plural marker
Usage notes
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  • Not used very often in colloquial Vietnamese, replaced by mấy, except in pronouns (such as các bạn). Even then, the use of these pronouns might indicate that the speaker wants to sound serious.
  • Generally speaking, các suggests that all of a given set of entities are involved, as opposed to những, which implies that only a certain number of the total possible number are referred to.
  • Plural marking is not always grammatically required in Vietnamese, in contrast with many Indo-European languages, and can be omitted in many situations.
Synonyms
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Etymology 2

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French carte.

Noun

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các

  1. (dated) cell phone's card
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Etymology 3

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Verb

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các

  1. to pay the difference, to give in compensation

References

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