Tonada

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

  1. you (to a woman a little older); older sister
  2. I/me, your big sister
  3. you, my big sister
  4. I/me, your female cousin who's descended from an ancestor who is/was an older sibling to yours or your spouse's
  5. you, my female cousin who's descended from an ancestor who is/was an older sibling to mine or my spouse's
  6. I/me, a female who's (presumably) slightly older than you
  7. you, a female who's (presumably) slightly older than me
  8. you, a young-adult woman
  9. you, the high schoolgirl reading this textbook
  10. she/her, that admirable/lovable young-adult woman
  11. older sister

Source: Tonada course · Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0 and GFDL)

Sources and licences

  • Tonada course content (words, example sentences and their translations).
  • Wiktionary contributors, via kaikki.org (wiktextract) — CC BY-SA 4.0 and GFDL

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