Definition

1. Adverb (archaic):
   • At will, as one pleases: Acting according to one's own wishes or discretion, without constraint or hindrance.
   • To take the trouble, to be so kind as to: Used as a polite entreaty, asking someone to kindly or condescend to do something that requires a bit of effort or patience.

Usage Examples

• Adverb:
  • Xin ông dầu lòng chờ vậy. (Please be so kind as to wait / Please take the trouble to wait.)
  • Hắn sống dầu lòng, chẳng màng đến lễ nghi. (He lived as he pleased, paying no heed to rituals.)

Advanced Usage

• This term is marked as archaic () and is rarely used in modern Vietnamese. It is primarily encountered in classical literature, formal requests, or historical texts. Its usage today would sound very formal and old-fashioned.

Variants and Related Words

• Dầu sao (conjunction): Nevertheless, anyway.

  • Dầu sao tôi cũng phải đi. (Anyway, I still have to go.)

• Dầu vậy (conjunction): Even so, despite that.

  • Dầu vậy, cô ấy vẫn không hối hận. (Even so, she did not regret it.)

Synonyms

• At will: Freely, arbitrarily.
• To be so kind as to: To condescend, to deign, to please.

Related Idioms

• Mặc dầu lòng: (An even more archaic variant) To act according to one's own heart/mind, to follow one's own will without restriction.

1. (cũ) At will,as one pleases.
2. (cũ, ít dùng) Tak the trouble
   • Xin ông dầu lòng chờ vậy
     please take trouble to wait