Definition

1. Noun phrase:
   • The following day, the next day: Refers to the day immediately after a specific day that has been mentioned or is understood from context.

Usage Examples

• Noun phrase:
  • Hôm nay chúng tôi đi tham quan, hôm sau chúng tôi sẽ nghỉ ngơi. (Today we go sightseeing, the next day we will rest.)
  • Anh ấy hứa sẽ gọi điện hôm sau. (He promised to call the following day.)
  • Buổi họp được dời sang hôm sau. (The meeting was postponed to the next day.)

Advanced Usage

• "Ngay hôm sau": Immediately the next day, the very next day. This phrase emphasizes immediacy.

  • Cô ấy bị ốm và ngay hôm sau đã phải nhập viện. (She fell ill and had to be hospitalized the very next day.)

• Used in narrative sequences to indicate chronological order after a past event.

  • Hôm đó trời mưa to. Hôm sau, đường phố ngập nước. (It rained heavily that day. The next day, the streets were flooded.)

Variants and Related Words

• Hôm trước (noun phrase): The previous day, the day before.

  • Tôi đã gặp cô ấy hôm trước. (I met her the day before.)

• Hôm kia (noun phrase): The day before yesterday.

• Ngày hôm sau (noun phrase): A slightly more formal or emphatic variant with the same meaning as "hôm sau".

Synonyms

• Ngày tiếp theo (noun phrase): The following day.
• Ngày kế tiếp (noun phrase): The subsequent day.

Notes on Meaning

• "Hôm sau" specifically refers to the calendar day after a reference point. It is a temporal adverb phrase.
• It is neutral and can refer to the past or the future relative to the context.
• Unlike English "tomorrow" (ngày mai), which is anchored to "today," "hôm sau" is relative to any given day in the discourse.

1. The following day, the next day