chết

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Tai Do

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Numeral

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chết

  1. seven

References

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  • Sầm Văn Bình (2018) Từ điển Thái–Việt (Tiếng Thái Nghệ An) [Tai–Vietnamese Dictionary (Nghệ An Tai)]‎[1], Nghệ An: Nhà xuất bản Nghệ An

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Etymology

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From Proto-Vietic *k-ceːt.

Pronunciation

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IPA(key): /ceːt⁷/

Verb

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chết

  1. (Cuối Chăm) to die

Vietnamese

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Vietnamese Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia vi

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Vietic *k-ceːt, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *kc(ə)t (to die). Related to giết (to kill).

According to Sagart (2008), a word from the Yuè language meaning "die" was noted in Zhèng Xuán's commentary on the Zhōu Lĭ from the Han dynasty using the character , pronounced "tsreat" in Middle Chinese. Scholars Norman and Mei (1976) compared this word with the Vietnamese word "chết", which also means "to die". However, they missed that 札 is a well-known Chinese word meaning "to die (from external causes, prematurely, or in an epidemic)." This word appears frequently in classical Chinese texts without any specific southern or Yuè connection. The presence of this word in the Yuè language during the Han dynasty might be due to Yuè borrowing it from Chinese. Alternatively, it could have been the standard word for "die" in a Chinese dialect spoken in the Yuè region. The similarity between this Chinese word and the Austroasiatic word is likely coincidental.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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chết (, 𣩂, 𣩁, )

  1. to die; to decease; to perish
    Antonym: sống
    cái chếtdeath
    Biết chết liền.
    Damned if I know.
  2. (figurative, of devices) to break; to stop working

Synonyms

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Adjective

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chết (, 𣩂, 𣩁, )

  1. dead; deceased; perished
    chếtdead fish
  2. (figurative, of devices) broken; ruined
  3. (figurative, of time) unoccupied; free; idle

Adverb

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chết (, 𣩂 𣩁, )

  1. (colloquial) extremely; terribly; awfully

Interjection

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chết (, 𣩂, 𣩁, )

  1. (colloquial) crap; shoot
    Synonyms: thôi chết, chết cha, chết mẹ
  2. (followed by a pronoun or kinship term) ... am/is screwed big time
    Chết tôi rồi !
    Screw me! / I am so screwed!
    Đừng ! Mày mà đi thì chết tao !
    Don't! If you go, I'll be dead meat!
    • 1941, Nam Cao, Chí Phèo:
      A ha! Phải đấy, hắn cứ thế mà chửa, cứ chửi đứa chết mẹ nào đẻ ra thân hắn, đẻ ra cái thằng Chí Phèo!
      Uh-huh! That's right, he can just do this, he can just curse whatever motherfucker that gave birth to him, to the bastard known as Chí Phèo!

Derived terms

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