công tác

See also: công-tắc

Vietnamese

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 工作 (“work; task”).

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [kəwŋ͡m˧˧ taːk̚˧˦]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [kəwŋ͡m˧˧ taːk̚˦˧˥]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [kəwŋ͡m˧˧ taːk̚˦˥]

Noun

a government or business mission or task

(classifier chuyến) công tác

a business trip

Verb

to do a formal job for a living
Short for đi công tác (“to go on a business trip”).
công tác dài ngày
to work far away for quite some time

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