Understanding Adjective Placement in Tiếng Việt
In Vietnamese, adjectives are words that describe something, like how big, small, or colorful it is. They help us make sentences more interesting and give us more information about nouns, which are things or people.
Important Points
- Adjectives describe nouns, telling us more about them.
- In Vietnamese, adjectives usually come after the noun.
- Sometimes, adjectives can come before the noun for emphasis or poetic reasons, but this is less common.
- Adjectives can describe size, color, shape, and other qualities.
When you want to tell someone that a flower is beautiful, or a dog is big, you use adjectives. In Vietnamese, you usually put the adjective after the noun. This is different from English, where adjectives often come before the noun.
Examples
- bông hoa xinh đẹp (beautiful flower)
- con chó to (big dog)
- quyển sách mới (new book)
Sometimes, people put the adjective before the noun to add special emphasis or to sound poetic. But most of the time, it's best to remember that adjectives come after the noun in Vietnamese.
Examples
- trái táo đỏ (red apple)
- căn nhà rộng (spacious house)
- cây bút mới (new pen)