con dâu
Definition
- Noun:
- Daughter-in-law: A woman who is married to one's son. This is the primary and most common meaning.
- Bride (in specific contexts): In traditional or formal contexts, it can refer to a newly married woman entering her husband's family, though this is less common in modern usage.
Usage Examples
- Noun:
- Con dâu tôi là một bác sĩ. (My daughter-in-law is a doctor.)
- Gia đình chào đón con dâu mới. (The family welcomes the new bride [daughter-in-law].)
- Bà ấy rất yêu quý con dâu của mình. (She loves her daughter-in-law very much.)
Advanced Usage
- "Làm con dâu": To be/become a daughter-in-law. This phrase often implies the role and responsibilities within the husband's family.
- Làm con dâu nhà ấy rất vất vả. (Being a daughter-in-law in that family is very hard.)
- "Con dâu trưởng": The eldest daughter-in-law (in a family with multiple sons). This term highlights hierarchy in traditional family structures.
Variants and Related Words
- Con rể (n): Son-in-law. The male counterpart.
- Bố mẹ chồng (n): Parents-in-law (from the wife's perspective: husband's parents).
- Bố mẹ vợ (n): Parents-in-law (from the husband's perspective: wife's parents).
Synonyms
- Belle-fille (French loanword, now rare): Daughter-in-law.
- Nàng dâu (poetic/literary): Bride, daughter-in-law. This term is more affectionate or formal.
Related Phrases
- Dâu con: A compound word meaning daughters-in-law and children in general, referring to the younger female members of a family.
- Bà cụ có đông đúc dâu con. (The old lady has many daughters-in-law and children.)
- Phận làm dâu: The lot/fate of being a daughter-in-law. Often used to discuss traditional expectations.
- Phận làm dâu ngày xưa nhiều lễ giáo. (The lot of a daughter-in-law in the old days involved many rules.)
Related Idioms
- "Dâu hiền, con thảo": (A gentle daughter-in-law, a filial child.) An idiom describing an ideal, harmonious family where the daughter-in-law is kind and the children are obedient.
- Gia đình họ được tiếng là "dâu hiền, con thảo". (Their family is known for having "a gentle daughter-in-law and filial children.")