sự
Appearance
See also: Appendix:Variations of "su"
Vietnamese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Sino-Vietnamese word from 事 (“abstract thing”), from Literary Chinese 事. 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 事 (koto). Also compare một cách (adverbializer).
Pronunciation
[edit]Prefix
[edit]sự
- matters; affairs
- sự đời
- life affairs; life concerns
- nominalizes verbs or adjectives
- sự sống còn
- survival
- (literally, “surviving thing”)
- sự đau đớn
- pain
- (literally, “painful thing”)
Derived terms
[edit]Derived terms