STO - The idiom "Fourteen also yes, fourteen also nod" was used by the ancients to mock people who were indecisive and could not distinguish right from wrong. In addition to the words "four" and "four" in the idiom, in Vietnamese there is also the word "four". What are the differences in the semantics and usage of the words four, four and four? This article collects, organizes, and helps everyone speak and write more correctly.
The use of four , four and four has become a habit, few people use it wrongly, but to explain it specifically is not easy. Illustration: HOANG LOC
According to the Vietnamese dictionary, edited by Hoang Phe, in 2011, Four nouns, written as 4, are the numbers after three, in the series of natural numbers. For example: My child is in fourth grade. A year has four seasons. Two plus two is four . Cats are animals with four legs. Four directions, eight directions, Four directions of the sky we come here to have fun together...
Synonymous with four is the word borrowed from Chinese, but there are certain differences. Four is often used as a structural element of compound words and idioms. For example: Four limbs, four nobles, four absolutes, four regions, four relatives, four relatives without relatives, etc. Few people use: Four limbs, four nobles, four relatives without relatives, etc. “Some people use individualism to scare people, saying that it is like four incurable diseases that cannot be cured by any medicine” (Nguyen Chi Thanh - Raising the Party's leadership flag higher).
In addition, "tu" can also be used independently, and in some cases, it is also used in parallel with "tu" . But the scope of use of "tu" is narrower than "tu" . Cases where "tu" is used without "tu" . For example: "ao tu than". "Hoi bo tu" . The poem has both "tu xe" and "tu ma", "quan tam tu" . Cases where it is used in parallel. For example: "Tu hai giai huynh de" / "Four seas are all brothers". "Tu thoi bat tiet" / "Four seasons, eight seasons". "Tu phuong bat huong" / "Four directions, eight directions" ...
In Vietnamese, four and four are only used in counting numbers, not to indicate ordinal numbers. When saying the fourth , in: the fourth class is said in the Chinese way. In Vietnamese, to talk about order, we often use the word " tu" . The word "tu" is formed by the change in tone of "tu". For example: Wednesday (day of the week). April (month of the year)... I am the fourth child. The fourth character Ben. The fourth sister Hau... No one uses: Wednesday (day of the week). April (month of the year)... I am the fourth child.
In addition, "tu" is also used to refer to odd numbers that accompany tens, hundreds, thousands, millions, etc. with the same value in the next lower level. For example: Twenty- four is twenty -four units. One hundred and four is one hundred with forty units. One million and four is one million with four hundred units. If the number is odd, not in the next lower level, we usually do not use "tu" , but use "four" . For example: 1,400 is one thousand four (one thousand four hundred). And 1,040 is one thousand and forty (do not use "one thousand and four ").
In short, the use of four , four and four has become a habit, few people use it wrongly, but to explain it specifically is not easy.
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