# Speak Vietnamese, Lesson 08
# by Nguyen Dinh Hoa, Library of Congress Card Catalog No. 66-17774
# Version 1.0  
# Paul Denisowski (paul@denisowski.org)
bay : to fly
máy bay : airplane [CL chiếc]
băm : thirty (contraction of ba mươi)
bằng : to go by (some means), be made of (some material)
biển : sign, placard [CL tấm]
bỏ : to drop, cast, abandon, mail
cạo : to shave
cạo đầu : to get a haircut, give a haircut
chạp : 12th lunar month, December
tháng chạp : 12th lunar month, December
chậm : to be slow
chính phủ : government
Ðà Lạt : Dalat
đầu : head
đỏ : to be red
đỗ : (of vehicle) to stop, park
độ : degree, measure; around, about
đợi : to wait (for)
đừng : do not, let us not
giêng : 1st lunar month, January
tháng giêng : 1st lunar month, January
hăm : twenty (contraction of hai mươi)
hiệu ăn : restaurant
hơi : steam, breath, gas
xe hơi : automobile [CL chiếc]
lâu : to take a long time
bao lâu : how long
không bao lâu : soon
lửa : fire, flame
xe lửa : train
máy quay phim : movie camera
màu : color
mùng : (one of the first 10 days of the month)
nên : should, ought to, had better
nên : so, that’s why, consequently
nói chuyện : to talk, converse
nhanh : fast, rapid, speedy
ơi : hey, yes
phải : must, should
phim : film, movies
quay phim : to take movies, shoot movies
phong cảnh : landscape, scenery
rồi : then (afterwards, next)
sơn : to paint, lacquer; paint, lacquer
tấm : [CL for boards, signs, bolts of cloth]
tầu : ship, boat (also train, plane)
tầu bay : airplane
tầu thủy : steamship, ocean liner [CL chiếc]
tóc : hair (on head)
tùy : to accompany, follow; to depend on, be up to
tùy ý : to be free to
tháng tư : 4th lunar month, April
theo ý tôi : in my opinion, I think, I feel
thế : to be so, be thus
thủy : water
thư : letter [CL cái]
trắng : to be white
xe : vehicle [CL chiếc]
ý : opinion, thought, idea
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