No. 624 in Vietnamese
the
"The" in Vietnamese means "card" or "ticket," depending on context.
In a sentence
Tôi cần một cuốn sách để đọc, nhưng tôi không biết chọn cuốn nào, vì thế tôi đã hỏi bạn tôi.
I needed a book to read, but I didn’t know which to choose, so I asked my friend.
In this sentence, 'thế' is used to mean 'so' or 'therefore', introducing a result from the previous statement.
Cái áo thế mà đẹp hơn tôi nghĩ.
That shirt is surprisingly more beautiful than I thought.
Here, 'thế mà' conveys a sense of mild surprise or emphasis, roughly meaning 'surprisingly' or 'to such an extent' in this context.
Thế giới này thật là rộng lớn.
This world is truly vast.
In this context, 'Thế giới' means 'world', where 'thế' pertains to the idea of 'the world' or 'this world' as a whole.
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