Vietnameseとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• Viet-Namese (obsolete)

語源

From Vietnam +‎ -ese.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˌviː.ət.nəˈmiːz/, /viˌɛt.nəˈmiːz/
• 韻: -iːz

形容詞

Vietnamese (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to Vietnam.
   • 2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Jonathan Cape, page 228:

     As I rubbed my face, a middle-aged man gripped my neck, the way Vietnamese fathers or uncles often do when trying to pour their strength into you.

派生語

名詞

Vietnamese (countable and uncountable, plural Vietnamese)

1. (countable, chiefly in the plural) A person or people from Vietnam or of Vietnamese descent.
   • 2023, Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls, 4th Estate, page 36:

     They were buried in a gravesite near Kai Tak, alongside other Vietnamese who hadn’t made it safely to shore.

2. (uncountable) Vietnamese cuisine; traditional Vietnamese food.

使用する際の注意点

• As with other terms for people formed with -ese, the countable singular noun in reference to a person (as in "I am a Vietnamese", "writing about Vietnamese cuisine as a Vietnamese") is uncommon and often taken as grammatically incorrect. In its place, the adjective is used, by itself (as in "I am Vietnamese") or before a noun like person, man, or woman ("writing about Vietnamese cuisine as a Vietnamese person"). See also -ish, which is similarly only primarily used as an adjective or as a plural noun.

固有名詞

Vietnamese

1. The Austroasiatic language spoken predominantly in Vietnam.

   Synonyms: Annamese, Annamite

   • 2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Jonathan Cape, page 31:

     The Vietnamese I own is the one you gave me, the one whose diction and syntax reach only the second-grade level.

   • 2023 December 30, Daniel W. Hieber, “Why I hate conlangs”, in Linguistic Discovery‎, archived from the original on 24 May 2024:

     If the idea of “exotic” and complex languages with features you’ve never imagined thrills you, I guarantee you’ll get more out of studying Navajo, American Sign Language, Kikuyu, Vietnamese, Cree, Cantonese, Quechua, or Nuuchahnnulth than Quenya, Klingon, or attempting to make your own.

参考

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Vietnamese terms
• Appendix:Vietnamese Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Vietnamese

Further reading

• ISO 639-1 code vi, ISO 639-3 code vie (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Vietnamese, vie ⁠

アナグラム

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