Bài 8: Some of the Vietnamese grammar points

1/ Unlike English, in Vietnamese the noun or the adjective which modifies for the main noun will be put after the main noun.

Ex 1:
This beautiful girl is my wife
translated into vietnamese will be:
cô gái xinh đẹp này là vợ (của) tôi

Ex 2:
This is a good Vietnamese grammar point
translated into vietnamese:
Đây là một điểm văn phạm Tiếng Việt hay

2/ Tenses in Vietnamese: Although in Vietnamese we don’t have the things called “Tenses” like English but there are some words we can use in a sentence to make people understand clearer which time we are mentioning to.

- future tenses: sẽ (will/shall)
- near future tenses: sắp (be going to/ be about to)
- past tenses: đã (can be omitted for short if we knew the time mentioned already)
- continuous tenses: đang

Ex 1:
tôi (I) [sẽ/sắp/đang/đã]     đi (go)

Ex 2 :
A: What were you doing when I called you yesterday?
B: I was playing game on PC

translated

A: Bạn đang làm gì khi tôi gọi bạn hôm qua?
B: Tôi đang chơi game trên PC

3/ Conditional sentence: in the same with English we have “if… then… “, in Vietnamese we have “nếu… thì….”

Ex:
If you don’t love me then I will kill you ;P
translated:
Nếu em không yêu anh thì anh sẽ giết em

* Note: the word “thì” sometime can be omitted for short