hết sạch
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Definition
- Adjective/Adverbial Phrase:
- Completely exhausted, entirely used up, all gone: Describes a state where nothing remains of a resource, supply, or item. It emphasizes totality and often implies a sudden or surprising absence.
- Cleaned out, depleted: Often used to indicate that a stock or quantity has been fully consumed or removed, leaving an empty state.
Usage Examples
- Adjective/Adverbial Phrase:
- Tủ lạnh hết sạch thức ăn rồi. (The fridge is completely out of food.)
- Tiền tiêu vặt đã hết sạch từ tuần trước. (My pocket money was all gone since last week.)
- Cửa hàng bán hết sạch vé trong một giờ. (The store sold out all the tickets within an hour.)
Advanced Usage
- Can function as a predicate adjective following the subject (e.g., ) or follow a verb to indicate the result of an action (e.g., meaning "to eat everything completely").
- Often conveys a tone of slight surprise, urgency, or finality regarding the depletion.
Variants and Related Words
- Hết (v/adj): to finish, to run out, to end. A more general and common term for depletion.
- Sữa hết rồi. (The milk is finished.)
- Hết nhẵn (adj/phrase): completely gone, not a single one left (often for countable items).
- Bánh mì hết nhẵn. (The bread is completely gone; not a single loaf left.)
- Hết ráo (adj/phrase): (synonymous with ) utterly exhausted, completely used up.
- Hết ráo nước. (Completely out of water.)
Synonyms
- All gone: Nothing remains.
- Cleaned out: Emptied of all contents.
- Depleted: Reduced until nothing is left.
- Exhausted: Completely used up.
Related Idioms and Phrases
- Hết sạch tiền: to be flat broke, to have no money left.
- Sau chuyến du lịch, tôi hết sạch tiền. (After the trip, I'm flat broke.)
- Hết sạch năng lượng: to be completely drained of energy.
- Làm việc cả ngày khiến tôi hết sạch năng lượng. (Working all day left me completely drained of energy.)
- Clean out of
- Hết sạch chè rồi, lấy đâu mà phaWe are clean out of tea, where can we find some to draw