các-ten

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Vietnamese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

French cartel, German Kartell, used as a calque of Russian картель (kartelʹ).

Noun[edit]

các-ten

  1. (communism, Leninism, economics, business, capitalism) a cartel

Usage notes[edit]

  • As with many loanwords whose foreignness can still be felt, Southerners tend to pronounce the <n> as /n/, not as */ŋ/.
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