Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Bold; daring; unafraid: Describes a person who is confident, not shy, and does not hesitate in speech or action.
   • Inured; hardened; accustomed: Describes a person, animal, or thing that has become accustomed to a potentially harmful, dangerous, or frightening phenomenon through repeated exposure, and is therefore less affected by it.

Usage Examples

• Adjective (Bold):
  • Đứa trẻ này rất dạn, không sợ người lạ. (This child is very bold and not afraid of strangers.)
  • Cô ấy nói chuyện trước đám đông một cách rất dạn dĩ. (She speaks in front of a crowd very boldly.)
• Adjective (Inured):
  • Những con chim trong công viên đã dạn người. (The birds in the park have become accustomed to people.)
  • Lính tráng đã dạn với súng đạn. (The soldiers have become inured to gunfire.)

Advanced Usage

• "dạn mặt": to have the audacity or nerve (to do something, often negative).
  • Hắn ta thật dạn mặt, dám nói dối như vậy. (He really has the nerve to lie like that.)
• The concept often implies a positive trait of courage when used as "bold," but can imply a negative, desensitized state when used as "inured/hardened," depending on context.

Variants and Related Words

• Dạn dĩ (adj): an intensified form meaning bold, audacious, confident.
  • Phong thái dạn dĩ của cô ấy gây ấn tượng mạnh. (Her confident demeanor made a strong impression.)
• Dạn gan (adj): bold, daring (literally "bold liver").
  • Phải thật dạn gan mới dám làm việc đó. (You have to be really daring to dare to do that.)

Synonyms

• Bold: showing a willingness to take risks; confident and courageous.
• Audacious: showing a willingness to take surprisingly bold risks.
• Inured: accustomed to accepting something undesirable.
• Hardened: toughened by experience.
• Fearless: lacking fear.

Related Idioms

• Dạn mày dạn mặt: to be thick-skinned or brazen, often in a negative sense of having no shame.
  • Kẻ ấy dạn mày dạn mặt, chẳng biết xấu hổ là gì. (That person is brazen and doesn't know what shame is.)

adj

1. daring; bold; inured to
   • dạn với nắng mưa
     to be inured to all weather