văn xuôi

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Vietnamese

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Etymology

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văn (language; writing) +‎ xuôi (flowy), perhaps from the notion that prose "flows" easier than poetry (which is more restrictive in terms of syllable counts and rhymes)

Pronunciation

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Noun

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văn xuôi

  1. (literature) prose

See also

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