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sự

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Vietnamese

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Etymology

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    Sino-Vietnamese word from (abstract thing), from Literary Chinese . Per Chinese morphology, it's used as a suffix and is fossilized in borrowings. In Vietnamese, it became a prefix to conform to native morphology. Compare other verbal nominalizers such as Rade klei and Japanese (koto). Also see một cách (adverbializer).

    Pronunciation

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    Prefix

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    sự

    1. (collective) affairs (abstract)
      sự đờilife affairs
      sự nghiệpcareer
    2. nominalizes verbs or adjectives
      sự sống cònsurvival
      sự đau đớnpain
      sự tương tácinteraction

    Derived terms

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    See also

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