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trai

Level ≈A2 (approx.) adjectivenoun Top 3,000 most common
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trai means male.

Meanings of trai in English

Adjective

  1. of people, only in fixed expressions male ≈ nam
    • anh traian older brother
    • em traia younger brother
    • con traia son / boys

Noun

  1. collective boys and men
    • con traiboys
  2. collective, colloquial, informal gigolos; male prostitutes
    • làm traito be a gigolo

Noun

  1. mussel

Words with trai

anh traiem traitrai baotrai gáitrai tânngọc traitrai lítrai lýtrai lơtrai tráng

Example sentences with trai

  • Tom có hai anh em trai. Tom has two brothers.
  • Họ là anh em trai. They're brothers.
  • Bạn có anh/em trai không? Do you have a brother?
  • Cô ta đã bảo các cậu trai sơn ngôi nhà. She had the boys paint the house.
  • Bạn đã sinh ra được một bé trai khỏe mạnh đấy. You have a healthy baby boy.
  • Trong bức ảnh này, tôi vẫn còn nhớ cháu trai tôi khi ấy mới chỉ năm tuổi. In this photo, I remember my grandson was only five years old.
  • Mary nói rằng cô ấy chưa bao giờ gặp bất cứ ai trong số những người anh em trai của Tom hết. Mary said she hasn't met any of Tom's brothers.
  • Các bé gái sẽ bước vào tuổi dậy thì vào khoảng độ tuổi 10 -11 tuổi, còn các bé trai thì sẽ vào khoảng độ tuổi 11-12 tuổi. Girls begin puberty around the ages of ten to eleven, and boys around the ages of eleven to twelve.

Bilingual example sentences from Tatoeba (tatoeba.org, CC BY 2.0 FR).

Historical script (chữ Nôm / Hán)

Before the Latin alphabet (chữ Quốc ngữ) became standard, trai could be written as 𤳆, 𪩭, 𤳇, 𧕚. Today Vietnamese is written only in the Latin alphabet.

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Vietic *p-laːl (“man, male”).

Frequently asked questions

What does trai mean in English?

trai (adjective) means "male".

How do you pronounce trai?

IPA: Hanoi [t͡ɕaːj˧˧]; Saigon [ʈaːj˧˧]. Tones: trai — level tone (ngang).

Meanings, pronunciation and etymology from English Wiktionary (wiktionary.org, via kaikki.org; CC BY-SA 4.0), reviewed and edited; example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). IPA shown for three accents: Hanoi (Northern), Huế (Central) and Saigon (Southern). The Listen button uses your browser's Vietnamese voice, for reference only. Levels are approximate, estimated from word frequency. Spotted a mistake? Let NgonNgu know.