nẩu

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

nẫu

Etymology

Contraction of nậu (“band; gang”) + the demonstrative ấy (“that”) in the southern dialects, with the latter manifested as the hỏi tone after monosyllabification.

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [nəw˧˩]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [nəw˧˨]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [nəw˨˩˦]

Pronoun

nẩu

(Bình Định, Phú Yên) he; she; they

Derived terms

Nẩu

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