không bao giờ
Vietnamese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]không (“not”) + bao giờ (“when”), literally “there's not any time; there's no amount of time”.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [xəwŋ͡m˧˧ ʔɓaːw˧˧ zəː˨˩]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [kʰəwŋ͡m˧˧ ʔɓaːw˧˧ jəː˦˩] ~ [xəwŋ͡m˧˧ ʔɓaːw˧˧ jəː˦˩]
- (Saigon) IPA(key): [kʰəwŋ͡m˧˧ ʔɓaːw˧˧ jəː˨˩] ~ [xəwŋ͡m˧˧ ʔɓaːw˧˧ jəː˨˩]
Adverb
[edit]- (alone in a special sentence or before the main verb of a regular clause or at the beginning of a literary clause) never
- Synonyms: không đời nào, chẳng bao giờ, chả bao giờ, đéo bao giờ
- Nó không bao giờ nghe lời tôi cả.
- She never listens to me