Vietnamese word
chị
Hà-Nội[t͡ɕi˧˨ʔ]Huế[t͡ɕɪj˨˩ʔ]Hồ Chí Minh City (Saigon)[cɪj˨˩˨]
In your course · Chapter 1
- Part of speech
- pronoun
- Level
- A1
- Frequency
- No. 282 in the course corpus
Meanings
- you (to a woman a little older); older sister
- I/me, your big sister
- you, my big sister
- I/me, your female cousin who's descended from an ancestor who is/was an older sibling to yours or your spouse's
- you, my female cousin who's descended from an ancestor who is/was an older sibling to mine or my spouse's
- I/me, a female who's (presumably) slightly older than you
- you, a female who's (presumably) slightly older than me
- you, a young-adult woman
- you, the high schoolgirl reading this textbook
- she/her, that admirable/lovable young-adult woman
- older sister
Source: Tonada course · Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0 and GFDL)