Definition

1. Noun:
   • Predestined love tie; karmic bond of love: A deep, fated romantic connection or relationship believed to be determined by destiny or karma from a previous life.
   • Natural, inescapable association: A figurative meaning describing any strong, seemingly fated connection or entanglement between people, things, or concepts.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Hai người gặp nhau là do duyên nợ từ kiếp trước. (The two met because of a predestined tie from a previous life.)
  • Cái nghề giáo với tôi đúng là một mối duyên nợ. (Teaching is truly a karmic bond for me.)
  • Mối duyên nợ giữa họ đã kéo dài nhiều năm. (Their predestined love tie has lasted for many years.)

Advanced Usage

• The term is often used in literary, philosophical, or spiritual contexts to convey a sense of fate and inescapable connection that transcends ordinary relationships.

Variants and Related Words

• Duyên phận (n): Fate or destiny in love; romantic fate.

  • Họ không có duyên phận với nhau. (They are not fated for each other.)

• Nợ duyên (n): A less common variant with the same core meaning as duyên nợ.

  • Anh ta vẫn chưa trả xong nợ duyên kiếp trước. (He has not yet finished repaying the karmic love debt from his past life.)

Synonyms

• Karmic bond: A connection resulting from actions in a past life.
• Destined love: Love that is meant to be by fate.
• Fated connection: An association predetermined by destiny.

Related Idioms

• Duyên nợ ba sinh: Literally "the karmic bond of three lifetimes," emphasizing a profound, multi-life destiny.
  • Họ tin tình yêu của mình là duyên nợ ba sinh. (They believe their love is a karmic bond spanning three lifetimes.)

1. Predestined love tie.
2. (văn chương) Natural association with