Vietnamese word
tôi
Hà-Nội[toj˧˧]Huế[toj˧˧]Hồ Chí Minh City (Saigon)[toj˧˧]
In your course · Chapter 1
- Part of speech
- pronoun
- Register
- formal, informal
- Level
- A1
- Frequency
- No. 49 in the course corpus
Meanings
- I; me
- I/me (used by someone with status equal or higher than his or her conversational partner, but doesn't want to sound too intimate to them)
- I/me (used when talking to one's friends)
- I/me (used in formal contexts, regardless of the difference in status between the speakers)
- I/me (used by a man to a woman he loves)
Source: Tonada course · Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0 and GFDL)
Examples
Tôi học tiếng Việt.
I'm learning Vietnamese.
Tôi không hiểu.
I don't understand.
Tôi là bác sĩ.
I'm a doctor.
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