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viết

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Hanoi [viət̚˧˦]Huế [viək̚˦˧˥]Saigon [viək̚˦˥] browser voice
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viết means to write.

Meanings of viết in English

Verb

  1. to write ≈ ghichép

Noun

  1. Southern Vietnam non-chalk handheld writing instrument ≈ bút
    • một cây viết chìa pencil

Words with viết

viết láchviết tắtviết chìviết nhịu

Example sentences with viết

  • Họ đã viết lá thư khi nào? When did they write the letter?
  • Tôi đã viết một lá thư rồi. I've already written a letter.
  • Tôi đã viết ba chữ cái rồi. I've already written three letters.
  • Cô ấy viết tay bức thư này. She wrote the letter in her own hand.
  • Họ nói là họ biết viết nhạc. They say that they can write songs.
  • Anh ấy viết một bản báo cáo. He wrote a report.
  • Hãy để tôi viết lại câu này. Let me rephrase the sentence.
  • Tôi cần phải viết một lá thư. I have to write a letter.

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, viết could be written as 曰. Today Vietnamese is written only in the Latin alphabet.

Etymology

Contra Alves (2017), the relationship between this word and 筆 (OC *p.[r]ut) (B-S) is very tenuous. He proposed the existence of a prefix to interpret both the discrepancy in part-of-speech and lenition. However, there was no such verbalizer prefix in Vietic, and among verb-noun pairs, the general direction for semantic extension in Vietnamese is verb > noun.

Frequently asked questions

What does viết mean in English?

viết (verb) means "to write".

How do you pronounce viết?

IPA: Hanoi [viət̚˧˦]; Saigon [viək̚˦˥]. Tones: viết — rising tone (sắc).

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.