con
Noun:
- Child, offspring, young: Refers to a human child or the young of an animal in relation to its parents.
- Sapling, seedling: A young plant or sprout.
- (Generic classifier): A word used before nouns to denote a single unit of animals, certain objects (like roads, knives, boats), or sometimes people (often with a derogatory or familiar nuance).
Adjective:
- Small, minor: Indicates something is smaller in size or of secondary importance.
Noun (Child/Offspring):
- Cô ấy có hai con. (She has two children.)
- Mèo mẹ và con của nó. (The mother cat and its kitten.)
Noun (Classifier for animals):
- Một con chó. (A dog.)
- Hai con chim. (Two birds.)
Noun (Classifier for objects):
- Một con dao. (A knife.)
- Một con đường. (A road.)
Adjective (Small):
- Chiếc xe con. (A small car.)
- Cột con. (A minor/pillar.)
"con một": an only child.
- Anh ấy là con một. (He is an only child.)
"to con": having a large body build.
- Người to con. (A large-built person.)
"nhỏ con": having a small body build.
- Cô ấy nhỏ con. (She is petite.)
Con cái (n): children, offspring (collectively).
- Ông bà ấy có nhiều con cái. (They have many children.)
Con đẻ (n): biological child; (figuratively) one's own creation.
- Đứa bé là con đẻ của họ. (The baby is their biological child.)
Con nuôi (n): adopted child.
- Họ yêu thương con nuôi như con đẻ. (They love their adopted child as their own.)
- Đứa trẻ: child (specifically a young human).
- Đứa bé: baby, young child.
- Cái: (classifier for many inanimate objects; contrast with 'con' for animals and certain objects).
Con bế con bồng: (idiomatic) to have many young children to carry and hold; signifies having a lot of small children.
- Thời con bế con bồng thật vất vả. (The time of having many toddlers was very hard.)
Con hơn cha là nhà có phúc: (proverb) It is a family's blessing when the child surpasses the father.
Con dại cái mang: (idiom) Literally "the child is foolish, the mother bears (the responsibility)." Means parents are responsible for their children's actions.
- Phải dạy con cẩn thận, con dại cái mang mà. (You must teach your children carefully, because parents are held accountable for their children's mistakes.)
Con nhà tông không giống lông cũng giống cánh: (proverb) Literally "A child from a bird family, if not similar in feathers, is similar in wings." Means children inherit traits from their parents.
- Child, offspring, young, son, daughter
- con mộtan only child
- Sapling, seedling con rau a vegetable seedling
- (Generic particle denoting a unit of animal or animal-like thing) A, an, the
- con voian elephant
- hai con chimtwo birds
- con đườnga road
- (Denoting derogatorily a person of some social category)
- con buôn