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"text": "Hai người ấy va vào nhau.",
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},
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"ipa": "[vaː˧˧]",
"note": "Saigon"
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"ipa": "[jaː˧˧]",
"note": "Saigon"
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"source": "w"
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"english": "He seemed like a fairly old guy; as he saw me approaching, he kept lying still with his legs crossed, took a deep hit yet not letting out a whit of smoke. I knew right away that he's a veteran [smoker].",
"ref": "1919, Phạm Duy Tốn, “Nước đời lắm nỗi”, in Tạp chí Nam Phong:",
"text": "Người ấy trông chừng cũng đã nhiều tuổi, thấy tôi đến gần, vẫn nằm vắt chân chéo khoeo, kéo một hơi thẳng, không thở tị tí khói nào. Tôi biết ngay va là tay lão luyện.",
"translation": "He seemed like a fairly old guy; as he saw me approaching, he kept lying still with his legs crossed, took a deep hit yet not letting out a whit of smoke. I knew right away that he's a veteran [smoker].",
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"english": "- Mr. Sáng has just bought a brand new Inova.\n- Not surprising, he doesn't seem to run out of money.",
"ref": "2014, Cao Xuân Hải, “Đại từ nhân xưng trong tiếng Thanh Hóa”, in Ngôn ngữ & Đời sống, volume 227, number 9:",
"text": "- Ông Sáng mới mua con Inova mới tinh.\n- Va thì thiếu chi tiền.",
"translation": "- Mr. Sáng has just bought a brand new Inova.\n- Not surprising, he doesn't seem to run out of money.",
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"Huế"
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"ipa": "[jaː˧˧]",
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"text": "Hai người ấy va vào nhau.",
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"to bump into (something)"
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"ipa": "[jaː˧˧]",
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}
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{
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},
{
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{
"word": "nghỉ va"
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"tags": [
"CJK"
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"english": "He seemed like a fairly old guy; as he saw me approaching, he kept lying still with his legs crossed, took a deep hit yet not letting out a whit of smoke. I knew right away that he's a veteran [smoker].",
"ref": "1919, Phạm Duy Tốn, “Nước đời lắm nỗi”, in Tạp chí Nam Phong:",
"text": "Người ấy trông chừng cũng đã nhiều tuổi, thấy tôi đến gần, vẫn nằm vắt chân chéo khoeo, kéo một hơi thẳng, không thở tị tí khói nào. Tôi biết ngay va là tay lão luyện.",
"translation": "He seemed like a fairly old guy; as he saw me approaching, he kept lying still with his legs crossed, took a deep hit yet not letting out a whit of smoke. I knew right away that he's a veteran [smoker].",
"type": "quotation"
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41,
43
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64,
66
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"english": "- Mr. Sáng has just bought a brand new Inova.\n- Not surprising, he doesn't seem to run out of money.",
"ref": "2014, Cao Xuân Hải, “Đại từ nhân xưng trong tiếng Thanh Hóa”, in Ngôn ngữ & Đời sống, volume 227, number 9:",
"text": "- Ông Sáng mới mua con Inova mới tinh.\n- Va thì thiếu chi tiền.",
"translation": "- Mr. Sáng has just bought a brand new Inova.\n- Not surprising, he doesn't seem to run out of money.",
"type": "quotation"
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"Huế"
]
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"note": "Saigon"
},
{
"ipa": "[jaː˧˧]",
"note": "Saigon"
}
],
"word": "va"
}
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