Vietnamese word
cái
Hà-Nội[kaːj˧˦]Huế[kaːj˨˩˦]Hồ Chí Minh City (Saigon)[kaːj˦˥]
In your course · Chapter 4
- Part of speech
- classifier
- Register
- informal
- Level
- A1
- Frequency
- No. 136 in the course corpus
Meanings
- (classifier for most objects)
- Indicates an inanimate, tangible thing
- Indicates animals
- Precedes another classifier (any one but “cái” itself), effectively acting as a focus marker, sometimes conveying a connotation of deprecation, especially if persons are referred to.
Source: Tonada course · Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0 and GFDL)