nào

See also: Appendix:Variations of "nao"

Mandarin

Alternative forms
  • nao — nonstandard

Romanization

nào (nao4, Zhuyin ㄋㄠˋ)

  1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 淖
  2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 澅／𣶩
  3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 腘
  4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 腢
  5. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 臋
  6. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鐃／铙
  7. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 閙／闹
  8. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 闹
  9. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鬧／闹

Tày

Pronunciation

Noun

nào (鐃)

  1. cymbals
Derived terms

Adverb

nào

  1. slightly; somewhat; quite
    nào đây ― quite good
    nào eng ― quite small
    nào lai ― quite a lot

Verb

nào

  1. to get better (after falling sick); to recover
    Pền khẩy nào đây dá.
    I've gotten better.

References
  • Hoàng Văn Ma, Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Chí (2006) Từ điển Tày-Nùng-Việt [Tay-Nung-Vietnamese dictionary] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Từ điển Bách khoa Hà Nội
  • Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎ (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
  • Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎ (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội

Vietnamese

Pronunciation
  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [naːw˨˩]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [naːw˦˩]
  • (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [naːw˨˩]
  • Audio (Hà Nội)(file)

Determiner

nào • (芇, 𱜢, 閙)

  1. which
    Đi đường nào đây?
    Which road do I take?

Usage notes
  • The interrogative pronoun nào follows the noun it modifies and denotes a choice which is to be made from a known set of things or people. Note that if nào follows a noun used together with a classifier, the noun may be omitted in the reply, but the classifier is required.
Anh mua quyển từ điển nào? ― Which dictionary are you buying?
Tôi mua quyển (từ điển) kia. ― I am buying that one.

See also
Derived terms

See also
Vietnamese demonstratives
Laurence Thompson (1965), Vietnamese Grammar
UnspecifiedClose to the
speaker or
newly introduced		Remote,
already identified
PLACE
đ- (first register)		 đâu
‘wherever’		 đây
‘here’		 đấy
‘there’
REFERENCE
n- (second register)		 nào
‘whichever’		 này
‘this’		 nọ
‘that’
PROPORTION
b- (first register)		 bao
‘to whatever extent’		 bây
‘to this extent’		 bấy
‘to that extent’
MANNER
s- (first register)
v- (second register)		 sao
‘however’		 vầy
‘this way’		 vậy
‘that way’
Nguyễn Phú Phong (1992), “Vietnamese Demonstratives Revisited”
D•
(Indefinite)		D1
(Proximal)		D2
(Medial)		D3
(Distal)
+NOM(inal) đâu
place-what		 đây
place-this		 đấy
place-that1
±NOM(inal) đó
(place-)that1		 kia
(place-)that2
–NOM(inal) nào
what		 nầy
this		 nấy/ấy
that1		 nọ
that2
Vietnamese demonstratives (alternative version)
Proximal
(*-iː)		 Distal 1
(*-iːʔ)		 Distal 2
(*-əːʔ)		 Distal 3/
Remote
(*-ɔːʔ)		 Interrogative
(rime was a rounded
back vowel)
Place, attributive1
n-		 ni
nì
này		 nấy nớ nọ nào
Place, nominal2
đ-		 đây đí
đấy		 — đó đâu
Manner
r-		 ri
rày		 — rứa — ru
sao3
Extent 14
b-		 bây bấy — — bao
Extent 25
v-		 vầy vậy — — —
1 Originally can only follow a nominal (being used attributively), hence nơi này (“this place; here”), nơi nào (“where”) (no longer completely true in the modern language).
2 Can be used on its own/is itself nominal, hence đây (“here”), đâu (“where”).
3 From earlier *C-raːw (where *C is nonspecific consonant).
4 Placed before the head: bây nhiêu (“this much”), bấy nhiêu (“that much”), bao nhiêu (“how much”).
5 Placed after the head: nhanh vầy (“this fast”), nhanh vậy (“that fast/so fast”).

Particle

nào • (芇, 𱜢, 閙)

  1. come on; come on now
    Nào anh em ơi !
    Hey y'all!
    Nhanh lên coi nào!
    Hurry up will ya! / Stop draggin' your feet!
    Chúng ta đi nào!
    Let's go!

Adverb

nào • (芇, 𱜢, 閙)

  1. (literary) not (negates meaning of verb)
    nào dám hơn thua ― dare not to show any competitiveness
    Nào có ai hay.
    There is no one who knows.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.