How to use the definite article in Viet­namese

Step 4 : The definite article in Viet­namese

The definite article is what we call the word the in English. The definite article is used with nouns in English (the book, the chair, the door etc.). Using the nouns quyển sách, cái ghế and cánh cửa (book, chair, door) which you learned in Step 3, learn how to use each noun with the definite article. This is easy in Vietnamese, because in Vietnamese, there is no definite article. So the word quyển sách can mean book or the book, the word cái ghế can mean chair or the chair and the word cánh cửa can mean door or the door. You can scroll to the top of this page to see a short lesson about the definite article in Vietnamese including useful examples. Once you have learned to use the definite article with the Vietnamese nouns quyển sách, cái ghế and cánh cửa, you're ready to move on to Step 5 (the plural in Vietnamese).

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