Category:Vietnamese terms by usage

Vietnamese terms categorized by the manner and context in which they are used by speakers.

• Category:Vietnamese terms with archaic senses: Vietnamese terms with individual senses that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature, sometimes still used for special effect, and typically recognized by native speakers.
• Category:Vietnamese childish terms: Vietnamese terms that are typically only used by, or to, children.
• Category:Vietnamese colloquialisms: Vietnamese terms that are likely to be used primarily in casual conversation rather than in more formal written works, speeches, and discourse.
• Category:Vietnamese dated terms: Vietnamese terms that are no longer fashionable and thus are anachronistic, but still sometimes in use, especially by older speakers.
• Category:Vietnamese derogatory terms: Vietnamese terms that are intended to disparage, demean, insult or offend.
• Category:Vietnamese dialectal terms: Vietnamese terms that are not used in standard language but only in dialects.
• Category:Vietnamese endearing terms: Vietnamese terms that are used to show affection or endearment to another person.
• Category:Vietnamese familiar terms: Vietnamese terms whose use is typically to contexts of friendly intimacy.
• Category:Vietnamese formal terms: Vietnamese terms whose use is typically restricted to polite, ceremonious, non-casual contexts.
• Category:Vietnamese higher register terms: Vietnamese terms belonging to a higher linguistic register, such as literary terms; such terms are somewhat less common or known.
• Category:Vietnamese honorific terms: Vietnamese honorific terms, which are used to show deference and respect.
• Category:Vietnamese humorous terms: Vietnamese terms that are humorous, amusing or joking.
• Category:Vietnamese informal terms: Vietnamese terms whose use is typically restricted to casual, non‐ceremonious conversations.
• Category:Vietnamese men's speech terms: Vietnamese terms and forms used in men's speech.
• Category:Vietnamese nonstandard terms: Vietnamese terms that are considered improper, incorrect or commonly misused.
• Category:Vietnamese terms with obsolete senses: Vietnamese terms with individual senses that are no longer in use and not usually recognized by native speakers, but still sometimes found in older literature.
• Category:Vietnamese obsolete terms: Vietnamese terms that are no longer in use and not usually recognized by native speakers, but still sometimes found in older literature.
• Category:Vietnamese offensive terms: Vietnamese terms that are typically considered to offend people.
• Category:Vietnamese officialese terms: Vietnamese terms that are chiefly used by official sources, and are often bureaucratic-sounding.
• Category:Vietnamese poetic terms: Vietnamese terms whose usage is typically restricted to works of poetry.
• Category:Vietnamese polite terms: Vietnamese polite terms, which are used to show deference and respect.
• Category:Vietnamese proscribed terms: Vietnamese terms whose usage is proscribed; thus, they are considered wrong according to prescriptive sources.
• Category:Vietnamese terms with rare senses: Vietnamese terms with individual senses that are rarely found in general use and may not be recognized by some native speakers.
• Category:Vietnamese rare terms: Vietnamese terms that are rarely found in general use and may not be recognized by some native speakers.
• Category:Vietnamese royal terms: Vietnamese terms used only by royalty.
• Category:Vietnamese rustic terms: Vietnamese terms whose use is typically restricted rural speech.
• Category:Vietnamese self-deprecatory terms: Vietnamese self-deprecatory terms.
• Category:Vietnamese short forms: Vietnamese terms that are short forms of other terms, often used informally.
• Category:Vietnamese slang: Vietnamese colloquial terms that are typically used to mark membership in a cultural subgroup.
• Category:Vietnamese terms with historical senses: Vietnamese terms with senses that refer to things or concepts mainly known for their historical value.
• Category:Vietnamese trademarks: Vietnamese terms that identify legal entities, their products and services, by means of legal protection — to some extent, in a number of jurisdictions — against unauthorized use of the terms.
• Category:Vietnamese terms with uncommon senses: Vietnamese terms with individual senses that are in general use but not common.
• Category:Vietnamese uncommon terms: Vietnamese terms that are in general use but not common.
• Category:Vietnamese vulgarities: Vietnamese terms whose tone (rather than the meaning) is offensive to polite company.
• Category:Vietnamese women's speech terms: Vietnamese terms and forms used in women's speech.