Definition

Verb (archaic): - To notify, to announce, to inform: To formally or officially make something known to a person or the public. This word carries a formal, often written, and sometimes legalistic tone, and is considered archaic in modern Vietnamese.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Chính quyền đã cáo tri cho dân chúng về quy định mới. (The authorities notified the people of the new regulation.)
  • Họ cáo tri sự kiện này trên các phương tiện thông tin đại chúng. (They announced this event via mass media.)
  • Việc thay đổi lịch trình sẽ được cáo tri trước một tuần. (The schedule change will be announced one week in advance.)

Advanced Usage

• "cáo tri" is primarily used in formal, official, or legal contexts. It is rarely used in everyday spoken conversation in contemporary Vietnamese, where words like (to notify/announce) or (to tell/inform) are more common.
• It often implies a one-way, authoritative communication from an institution or authority figure to a recipient or the general public.

Variants and Related Words

• Bản cáo tri (Noun): A notification, an announcement (a formal document or statement).
  • Mọi người đều nhận được bản cáo tri. (Everyone received the notification.)
• Thông báo (Verb/Noun): To announce, to notify; an announcement, a notice. (Modern, common equivalent).
• Cáo thị (Verb/Noun - archaic): To post a public notice; a public proclamation/edict. (Similar formal/archaic register).

Synonyms

• Thông báo: to announce, to notify.
• Báo: to tell, to inform.
• Công bố: to proclaim, to declare (often for more significant announcements).
• Loan báo: to announce, to proclaim (literary/formal).

Related Phrases / Idioms

• Cáo tri quần chúng: To notify the public / To make a public announcement.
  • Sự kiện đặc biệt này cần được cáo tri quần chúng. (This special event needs to be announced to the public.)

1. (cũ) Notify