bạn
Học thuậtThân thiện
Definition
Noun:
- Friend, companion, comrade: A person you know well and have a close, equal relationship with, often due to shared interests, circumstances, ideals, or activities.
- (Historical/Regional) Farmhand, seasonal laborer: In older or specific contexts, a man hired for seasonal or specific labor.
- Ally, supporter: A person, group, or country that shares your views or supports your cause.
- (Used as a suffix) Fellow, counterpart: Denotes a closely related or counterpart unit or group.
Verb (colloquial):
- To befriend, to become friends (with): To establish a friendly relationship. An abbreviation of "kết bạn".
Usage Examples
Noun:
- Cô ấy là bạn thân nhất của tôi. (She is my closest friend.)
- Họ là bạn cùng lớp đại học. (They are university classmates. / They are fellow university students.)
- Chúng tôi chào đón các vận động viên từ nước bạn. (We welcome athletes from a friendly country.)
- Đội bạn đã thi đấu rất fair-play. (The opposing/fellow team played very fairly.)
Verb:
- Tôi muốn bạn với anh ấy. (I want to befriend him. / I want to become friends with him.)
Advanced Usage
"bạn trăm năm": Literally "a friend of a hundred years". A poetic term for a spouse (husband or wife), emphasizing lifelong partnership.
- Cô ấy đã tìm thấy bạn trăm năm của mình. (She has found her lifelong partner/spouse.)
"chọn bạn mà chơi": An idiom meaning "one must choose one's friends (wisely)".
- Bố mẹ luôn dạy tôi phải chọn bạn mà chơi. (My parents always taught me to choose my friends carefully.)
"phân biệt ta, bạn, thù": To distinguish between ourselves, our friends, and our enemies.
- Trong chiến lược, việc phân biệt ta, bạn, thù là rất quan trọng. (In strategy, distinguishing between allies, friends, and enemies is very important.)
Variants and Related Words
Bạn bè (n): Friends (plural, collective). Often used to refer to one's circle of friends.
- Bạn bè tôi rất thân thiết. (My friends are very close.)
Bạn học (n): Schoolmate, classmate, fellow student.
- Bạn đường (n): Travel companion.
- Bạn chiến đấu (n): Comrade-in-arms, companion-in-arms.
- Bạn thân (n): Close friend, intimate friend.
- Bạn gái (n): Girlfriend (or a female friend, depending on context).
- Bạn trai (n): Boyfriend (or a male friend, depending on context).
Synonyms
- Bằng hữu (n, literary): Friend, companion.
- Đồng chí (n): Comrade (often with political or organizational connotation).
- Bè bạn (n): Friends, pals (collective).
- Tri kỷ (n): Bosom friend, confidant(e).
Related Phrases (Compound Words)
- Bạn đồng hành: Fellow traveler, companion on a journey.
- Bạn đồng nghiệp: Colleague, fellow worker.
- Bạn nối khố: (Very intimate friend) An inseparable, bosom friend (somewhat archaic/idiomatic).
- Làm bạn: To become friends; can also mean to marry (as in "làm bạn trăm năm").
Related Idioms
- "Thêm bạn bớt thù": (To gain friends and reduce enemies). A proverb advocating for diplomacy and building alliances.
- Chính sách ngoại giao của chúng tôi là thêm bạn bớt thù. (Our foreign policy is to make more friends and fewer enemies.)
noun
- Friend, fellow, comrade
- bạn chiến đấucomrade-in-arms, companion-in-arms
- chọn bạn mà chơione must choose one's friend
- phân biệt ta, bạn, thùto make a difference between ourselves, our friends and our enemies
- nước bạna friendly country
- bạn trăm nămspouse, husband or wife (for bad and for good)
- làm bạnto marry each other, to become man and wife
- hai người làm bạn với nhau đã được một conthey married (each other) and have got a child