Talk:Vietnamese grammar

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list of pronominals

The text below (all of it?) needs to incorporated into the kinship term section. – ishwar (speak) 19:58, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Other pronouns in use for the most part conform to the European idea of grammatical person. Some are even gender-neutral and relationship-neutral:

Hắn, gã, y: (pejorative) he
Ả, thị: (pejorative) she
Ông ta/Ông ấy: he (see above)
Bà ta/Bà ấy: she (see above)
Cô ta/Cô ấy: she (see above)
Anh ta/Anh ấy: he (see above)
Con đó/Con ấy: (pejorative) she, it
Thằng đó/Thằng ấy: (prejorative) he
Họ: they
Bả: south, she
Ổng: south, he
Ảnh: south, he
Quý vị: you (bigger audience--plural, formal)
Bạn: friend, you, neutral

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Syntactic classification

Is Vietnamese analytic or isolating? These two terms are not identical. (I would edit it and choose the right one, only I don't know much about Vietnamese.) 89.138.151.18 (talk) 10:51, 27 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

the terms are usually synonymous. – ishwar (speak) 20:31, 27 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Vietnamese is one of the prototypical isolating languages, although as ishwar notes, the terms are not always clearly distinguished. The relevant WP page claims that Mandarin Chinese is analytic but not isolating. Other linguists might say that Mandarin Chinese is analytic/isolating (synonymous terms) but not monosyllabic. Benwing (talk) 05:34, 1 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Suggest move to Vietnamese grammar, merge Vietnamese morphology

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The result of the move request was: page moved. Vegaswikian (talk) 02:00, 8 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Vietnamese syntax → Vietnamese grammar – Nearly all languages have combined morphology/syntax pages, called "X grammar". (See Category:Grammars of specific languages) In this case, the morphology page is only about 25% the size of the syntax page (not surprisingly, since Vietnamese doesn't have much morphology). I suggest merging the two and moving the result to Vietnamese grammar. This will help keep the pages consistent, make the morphology stuff easier to locate, and make it more likely that the stuff as a whole gets edited. Benwing (talk) 05:24, 1 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Belonging?

The main page of this article contains a reference to a noun "belonging" to another word, but it is unclear what the author meant by "belonging."

Does the author mean that in any instance where two words are close to each other, one word "belongs" to the other?

Since Vietnamese does not use a case system like Latin and Greek, nor anything coming close to the "possessive" case in English or German, I don't understand what the author means by saying that one word can "belong" to another. Help! Dexter Nextnumber (talk) 22:42, 21 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]