"sự" meaning in Vietnamese

See sự in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Prefix

IPA: [sɨ˧˨ʔ] [Hà-Nội], [ʂɨ˨˩ʔ] [Huế], [sɨ˨˩ʔ] [Huế], [ʂɨ˨˩˨] (note: Saigon), [sɨ˨˩˨] (note: Saigon)
Etymology: 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). Etymology templates: {{categorize|vi|Sino-Vietnamese words}}, {{vi-etym-sino|事|abstract thing}} Sino-Vietnamese word from 事 (“abstract thing”), {{der|vi|lzh|事}} Literary Chinese 事, {{ncog|rad|klei}} Rade klei, {{ncog|ja|事|tr=koto}} Japanese 事 (koto) Head templates: {{head|vi|prefix|head=}} sự, {{vi-prefix}} sự
  1. matters; affairs Tags: morpheme
    Sense id: en-sự-vi-prefix-gIfXwG6Z Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Vietnamese entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 73 27 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 62 38 Disambiguation of Vietnamese entries with incorrect language header: 60 40
  2. nominalizes verbs or adjectives Tags: morpheme
    Sense id: en-sự-vi-prefix-stIt~qv1 Categories (other): Sino-Vietnamese words Disambiguation of Sino-Vietnamese words: 39 61
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: việc
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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "cán sự"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "chiến sự"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "cộng sự"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "dân sự"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "đại sự"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "hành sự"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "hậu sự"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "hình sự"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "hôn sự"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "khởi sự"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "kí sự"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "lí sự"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "nhân sự"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "phụng sự"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "quân sự"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "quốc sự"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sự kiện"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sự nghiệp"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sự thực"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sự tích"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sự tình"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sự vật"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sự việc"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "tâm sự"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "thời sự"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "tự sự"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "vô sự"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "xử sự"
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
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        "2": "Sino-Vietnamese words"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "categorize"
    },
    {
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        "1": "事",
        "2": "abstract thing"
      },
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      "name": "vi-etym-sino"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "vi",
        "2": "lzh",
        "3": "事"
      },
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      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "rad",
        "2": "klei"
      },
      "expansion": "Rade klei",
      "name": "ncog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ja",
        "2": "事",
        "tr": "koto"
      },
      "expansion": "Japanese 事 (koto)",
      "name": "ncog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "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).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "vi",
        "2": "prefix",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "sự",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sự",
      "name": "vi-prefix"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Vietnamese",
  "lang_code": "vi",
  "pos": "prefix",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "việc"
    }
  ],
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    {
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        {
          "_dis": "73 27",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "62 38",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "60 40",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Vietnamese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "life affairs; life concerns",
          "text": "sự đời",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "matters; affairs"
      ],
      "id": "en-sự-vi-prefix-gIfXwG6Z",
      "links": [
        [
          "matter",
          "matter#English"
        ],
        [
          "affair",
          "affair#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "39 61",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Sino-Vietnamese words",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "(literally, “surviving thing”)",
          "roman": "survival",
          "text": "sự sống còn",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "(literally, “painful thing”)",
          "roman": "pain",
          "text": "sự đau đớn",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "nominalizes verbs or adjectives"
      ],
      "id": "en-sự-vi-prefix-stIt~qv1",
      "tags": [
        "morpheme"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[sɨ˧˨ʔ]",
      "tags": [
        "Hà-Nội"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ʂɨ˨˩ʔ]",
      "tags": [
        "Huế"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[sɨ˨˩ʔ]",
      "tags": [
        "Huế"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ʂɨ˨˩˨]",
      "note": "Saigon"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[sɨ˨˩˨]",
      "note": "Saigon"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sự"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Sino-Vietnamese words",
    "Vietnamese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Vietnamese lemmas",
    "Vietnamese prefixes",
    "Vietnamese terms derived from Literary Chinese",
    "Vietnamese terms with IPA pronunciation"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "cán sự"
    },
    {
      "word": "chiến sự"
    },
    {
      "word": "cộng sự"
    },
    {
      "word": "dân sự"
    },
    {
      "word": "đại sự"
    },
    {
      "word": "hành sự"
    },
    {
      "word": "hậu sự"
    },
    {
      "word": "hình sự"
    },
    {
      "word": "hôn sự"
    },
    {
      "word": "khởi sự"
    },
    {
      "word": "kí sự"
    },
    {
      "word": "lí sự"
    },
    {
      "word": "nhân sự"
    },
    {
      "word": "phụng sự"
    },
    {
      "word": "quân sự"
    },
    {
      "word": "quốc sự"
    },
    {
      "word": "sự kiện"
    },
    {
      "word": "sự nghiệp"
    },
    {
      "word": "sự thực"
    },
    {
      "word": "sự tích"
    },
    {
      "word": "sự tình"
    },
    {
      "word": "sự vật"
    },
    {
      "word": "sự việc"
    },
    {
      "word": "tâm sự"
    },
    {
      "word": "thời sự"
    },
    {
      "word": "tự sự"
    },
    {
      "word": "vô sự"
    },
    {
      "word": "xử sự"
    }
  ],
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        "1": "vi",
        "2": "Sino-Vietnamese words"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "categorize"
    },
    {
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        "1": "事",
        "2": "abstract thing"
      },
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      "name": "vi-etym-sino"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "lzh",
        "3": "事"
      },
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "rad",
        "2": "klei"
      },
      "expansion": "Rade klei",
      "name": "ncog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ja",
        "2": "事",
        "tr": "koto"
      },
      "expansion": "Japanese 事 (koto)",
      "name": "ncog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "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).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "vi",
        "2": "prefix",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "sự",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sự",
      "name": "vi-prefix"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Vietnamese",
  "lang_code": "vi",
  "pos": "prefix",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "việc"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Vietnamese terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "life affairs; life concerns",
          "text": "sự đời",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
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      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "matter",
          "matter#English"
        ],
        [
          "affair",
          "affair#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Vietnamese terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "(literally, “surviving thing”)",
          "roman": "survival",
          "text": "sự sống còn",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "(literally, “painful thing”)",
          "roman": "pain",
          "text": "sự đau đớn",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "nominalizes verbs or adjectives"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[sɨ˧˨ʔ]",
      "tags": [
        "Hà-Nội"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ʂɨ˨˩ʔ]",
      "tags": [
        "Huế"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[sɨ˨˩ʔ]",
      "tags": [
        "Huế"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ʂɨ˨˩˨]",
      "note": "Saigon"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[sɨ˨˩˨]",
      "note": "Saigon"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sự"
}

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