cảm khái
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Definition
- Verb:
- To sigh with deep emotion; to lament: To express a profound feeling of sorrow, regret, or melancholy, often about past events or a general state of affairs.
- To be moved to sigh with feeling: To experience and outwardly show a complex emotional response, typically mixing sadness, nostalgia, and resignation.
Usage Examples
- Verb:
- Ông già cảm khái nhìn về quá khứ. (The old man sighed with emotion while looking back at the past.)
- Cô ấy cảm khái về thời thanh xuân đã qua. (She lamented her bygone youth.)
- Nhà văn cảm khái về sự thay đổi của quê hương. (The writer sighed with feeling over the changes in his homeland.)
Advanced Usage
- "cảm khái vô cùng": to be infinitely moved and melancholic.
- Nghe câu chuyện của bà, tôi cảm khái vô cùng. (Hearing her story, I was deeply moved and melancholic.)
Variants and Related Words
Thương cảm (v): to pity, to feel compassion for.
- Tôi thương cảm hoàn cảnh của cô ấy. (I pity her situation.)
Bi cảm (adj): sorrowful, tragic (often describing a mood or artistic tone).
- Bộ phim mang một vẻ bi cảm. (The film has a sorrowful tone.)
Synonyms
- Lament: to express sorrow or regret.
- Bemoan: to express discontent or sorrow over.
- Sigh over: to express feeling with a sigh.
Related Idioms
- Cảm khái thế sự: to lament the ways of the world; to sigh over the state of human affairs.
- Cụ già thường ngồi uống trà và cảm khái thế sự. (The old man often sits drinking tea and lamenting the ways of the world.)
verb
- To grieve
- cảm khái về nỗi nước mất nhà tanto grieve over the occupation of one's country and the dispersal of one's family