bấy chầy

Thân thiện

Bấy chầy, cô ấy vẫn chăm sóc khu vườn nhỏ của mình.

Definition

1. Adverb (Literary):
   • For a long time, for so long: Indicates a lengthy, often indefinite, duration of time that has passed.
   • Ever since, since long ago: Used to mark the starting point of a prolonged period extending to the present.

Usage Examples

• Adverb:
  • Bấy chầy chưa tỏ tiêu hao. (For so long, there has been no news of their fate.)
  • Bấy chầy nàng vẫn nhớ về quê hương. (Ever since, she has still remembered her homeland.)

Advanced Usage

• This word is primarily found in classical Vietnamese poetry and literature. It conveys a sense of nostalgia, longing, or the weight of elapsed time.
• It often appears at the beginning of a clause to set a temporal context for the statement that follows.

Variants and Related Words

• Bấy lâu (adv): A more common synonym in both literary and slightly more modern contexts, also meaning "for a long time, all this while."
  • Bấy lâu anh vẫn chờ đợi. (All this while, he has been waiting.)

Synonyms

• For a long time: Over an extended period.
• All this while: Throughout this long duration.
• Ever since: Continuously from a point in the past until now.

Related Idioms

• While "bấy chầy" itself is not typically part of a fixed idiom, it functions within poetic lines to create a classical, timeless feeling, often related to themes of separation and memory.

Học thuật

1. For long, since long, ever since