đó

See also: đồ, Đỗ, đỏ, đổ, độ, and Appendix:Variations of "do"

Vietnamese

Etymology

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *tɔʔ (that, there). Cognate with Khmer ដ៏ (dɑɑ) and Bahnar to.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

đó (𪦆, 𪥾)

  1. there
    Synonym: đấy
  2. they, those (things, not people)

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
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