How to use demonstrative pronouns in Vietnamese

How to use demonstrative pronouns in Viet­namese

You want to learn how to use demonstrative pronouns in Vietnamese? You've come to the right place! Scroll down and see the short Vietnamese lessons complete with useful examples. This house, that house... we make learning Vietnamese demonstrative pronouns easy for you.

Viet­namese demonstrative pronouns : this

Demonstrative pronouns are used with nouns to make them more specific. The English demonstrative pronoun 'this' is 'này' in Vietnamese.

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cái bàn này
this table
cái ghế này
this chair
con ngựa này
this horse
đứa con trai này
this boy
người đàn bà này
this woman
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trái táo này
this apple
con ngựa này
this horse
cái bàn này
this table
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this house
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Step 6 : Viet­namese demonstrative pronouns

Demonstrative pronouns are used to refer to specific objects and their locations. In English, this would be the words this and these to refer to objects which are near and that and those to refer to objects which are further away. Using the nouns quyển sách, cái ghế and cánh cửa (book, chair, door) which you learned in Step 3, learn to use the demonstrative pronouns with each of these nouns (this book, that chair, these doors). You can scroll to the top of this page to see a short lesson about Vietnamese demonstrative pronouns including useful examples. After you've learned to use the Vietnamese demonstrative pronouns with the nouns quyển sách, cái ghế and cánh cửa and the plural nouns những quyển sách, những cái ghế and những cánh cửa you can move on to Step 7 (Vietnamese adjectives).

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