rơi
Appearance
See also: Appendix:Variations of "roi"
Vietnamese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Austroasiatic *rə:j (“scatter, sprinkle”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [zəːj˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [ʐəːj˧˧]
- (Saigon) IPA(key): [ɹəːj˧˧]
- Homophone: dơi (Northern Vietnam)
Audio (Saigon): (file)
Verb
[edit]- to fall (from a height)
- Synonym: rớt
- mưa rơi ― rain falls
- to fall (to occur, to happen)
- Sinh nhật tôi rơi vào thứ hai. ― My birthday falls on Monday.
- to fall (to arrive through chance, fate)
- Số phận rơi vào tay của tổng thống. ― Fate falls into the hand of the president.
- to fall to become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before
- rơi vào nợ nần ― to fall into debts
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]- ngã (“to fall due to lack of balance”)