Bài 7: Personal Pronouns – Các đại từ định danh

Pronoun: Đại từ

is a word or a group of words that’s used to point at an object that want to mention

Personal Pronouns: Đại từ danh xưng

In Vietnamese, there are many personal pronouns you have to use suitable to every different contexts.

Here I just list for you some of base personal pronouns:

* 1st personal pronoun:

- singular: Tôi (only me)

- plural: Chúng tôi (both me and someone else – not you in it), chúng ta (both me and someone else – both you)

* 2nd personal pronoun:

- singular: Bạn (only you)

- plural: Các bạn (both you and someone else – not me in it)

* 3rd personal pronoun:

- singular: anh ấy (male person), cô ấy (female person), nó (a person you don’t need to be polite / a thing)

- plural: họ (people), chúng/chúng nó (someone or something you dont need to be polite)

Note: the words “chúng/các…” are used to express a large of objects

Express an object base on age distance:

In Vietnam, expressing an object base on age distance is very common in daily conversations. Beside the meaning is expressing an object, it also present the age group and the respect for the object

This table will help you understand more:

Express an object via the name:

In Vietnam, we can call name of object, it help to increase the intimate

As I said, there are a lot of personal pronouns in Vietnamese, I’ll explain to you at another time

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