giảm dần
Definition
- Verb (intransitive): To decrease, diminish, or decline gradually and progressively over time or in stages.
- Adjective: Describing something that is decreasing, diminishing, or declining gradually.
Usage
- Verb: Used to describe a process where intensity, quantity, quality, or degree becomes less and less in a steady, often stepwise, manner.
- Adjective: Used to modify a noun, indicating that the noun possesses the characteristic of gradual reduction.
Examples
- Verb:
- Áp lực công việc đã giảm dần sau khi dự án kết thúc. (Work pressure gradually decreased after the project ended.)
- Tiếng ồn giảm dần cho đến khi hoàn toàn biến mất. (The noise diminished gradually until it completely disappeared.)
- Adjective:
- Họ đề xuất một mức thuế giảm dần đối với các doanh nghiệp nhỏ. (They proposed a gradually decreasing tax rate for small businesses.)
- Đây là một hàm số có giá trị giảm dần. (This is a function with progressively diminishing values.)
Advanced Usage
- "giảm dần theo": to decrease/decline according to or along with something.
- Mức độ nghiêm trọng giảm dần theo thời gian. (The severity decreases with time.)
- "theo thứ tự giảm dần": in descending order.
- Hãy sắp xếp các số này theo thứ tự giảm dần. (Please arrange these numbers in descending order.)
Variants and Related Words
- Giảm (v): To decrease, to reduce. (The core verb; "giảm dần" adds the nuance of gradualness.)
- Sự giảm dần (n): A gradual decrease, diminution, decline.
- Sự giảm dần của nhiệt độ được ghi nhận rõ ràng. (The gradual decrease in temperature was clearly recorded.)
- Dần dần (adv): Gradually, little by little. (An adverb with similar meaning, often used with the verb "giảm": ).
Synonyms
- Thoái trào (v): To wane, to subside (often used for abstract things like enthusiasm, movements).
- Suy giảm (v): To decline, to degenerate (often implies a negative decline in health, power, quality).
Antonyms
- Tăng dần (v/adj): To increase gradually; gradually increasing.
- Tăng lên (v): To increase, to rise.