Definition

1. Noun:
   • Morning sickness: A condition characterized by nausea and sometimes vomiting, commonly experienced by women during the early stages of pregnancy.

Usage

• The term 'ốm nghén' is used specifically to describe the pregnancy-related sickness that typically occurs in the first trimester. It is a compound noun in Vietnamese, but its primary English equivalent is the fixed phrase "morning sickness". It is used as a subject, object, or complement in a sentence.

Usage Examples

• As a Noun:
  • Cô ấy đang bị ốm nghén rất nặng. (She is suffering from severe morning sickness.)
  • Ốm nghén thường xảy ra vào buổi sáng.* (Morning sickness often occurs in the morning.)
  • Một số phụ nữ may mắn không hề bị ốm nghén. (Some lucky women do not experience morning sickness at all.)

Advanced Usage

• "Bị ốm nghén": This is the most common collocation, meaning "to have/suffer from morning sickness".
  • Chị tôi mới có thai và đang bị ốm nghén. (My sister is newly pregnant and is having morning sickness.)

Variants and Related Words

• Buồn nôn (do nghén): Nausea (from morning sickness). This is a descriptive phrase for a key symptom.
  • Cô ấy thường xuyên cảm thấy buồn nôn do nghén. (She frequently feels nausea from morning sickness.)

Synonyms

• Morning sickness: The direct and most common translation.
• Pregnancy sickness: A more general, descriptive synonym.
• Nausea and vomiting of pregnancy (NVP): The formal medical term.

Related Phrases

• Qua cơn nghén: To get past the morning sickness phase.
  • Cô ấy sẽ cảm thấy khỏe hơn sau khi qua cơn nghén. (She will feel better after getting past the morning sickness phase.)
• Nghén ngẩm: A more informal, colloquial variant with the same meaning as 'ốm nghén'.
  • Dạo này chị ấy nghén ngẩm nên ăn uống khó khăn. (Lately, she has been having morning sickness, so eating is difficult.)

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