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# vietnamese

«vietnamese» in Mova's school dictionary: **From or to do with Vietnam, a country in South-East Asia** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (Vietnamese); noun (a Vietnamese, the Vietnamese — plural the same; Vietnamese, the language)

### meaning for a pupil

1) From or to do with Vietnam, a country in South-East Asia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vietnamese/#m1)

2) A person from Vietnam or of Vietnamese family. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vietnamese/#m2)

3) The language spoken in Vietnam. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vietnamese/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and everyday life: Vietnamese food (pho, spring rolls), Vietnamese families in Australia, the USA, Canada and the UK. In language lessons: Vietnamese is written with the Latin alphabet plus many accent marks and has tones.

### examples

- We ate Vietnamese noodle soup called pho. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vietnamese/#x1)
- My friend's grandparents speak Vietnamese at home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vietnamese/#x2)
- Vietnamese uses tones, so the same sound can mean different things. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vietnamese/#x3)
- The Vietnamese coast is very long and thin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vietnamese/#x4)
- There is a Vietnamese bakery near our school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vietnamese/#x5)
- She is learning to write Vietnamese with all its accents. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vietnamese/#x6)

### note

Always written with a capital V: Vietnamese. Plural of the noun for people is the same: one Vietnamese, many Vietnamese (more often «Vietnamese people»). Say vee-et-nuh-MEEZ.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «vietnamese» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vietnamese/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.