Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Grown up and sensible: Describes a person, typically a child or young person, who has reached an age where they are physically mature and possess a reasonable level of understanding, judgment, and responsibility. It implies a transition from childhood to a more mature state, both in body and mind.
   • To have grown up: Refers to the process or state of having reached physical and mental maturity.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Các con tôi đều đã khôn lớn và có gia đình riêng. (My children have all grown up and have their own families.)
  • Thấy con khôn lớn, cha mẹ nào cũng vui. (Any parent is happy to see their child grow up to be sensible.)
  • Nó đã khôn lớn, biết tự lo cho bản thân. (He/She has grown up and knows how to take care of himself/herself.)

Advanced Usage

• "trưởng thành và khôn lớn": A common phrase combining "trưởng thành" (mature) and "khôn lớn" for emphasis.
  • Mong con sớm trưởng thành và khôn lớn. (I hope you will soon mature and grow up.)
• Used to express a parent's or elder's observation or hope regarding a young person's development.
  • Bao năm vất vả nuôi con khôn lớn. (All the hard years of raising a child to maturity.)

Variants and Related Words

• Khôn (adj): Wise, sensible, clever. (e.g., - a wise child)
• Lớn (adj): Big, large, grown. (e.g., - you are grown up now)
• Trưởng thành (adj/verb): Mature, to mature. Focuses more on psychological and social maturity.

Synonyms

• Trưởng thành: Mature.
• Lớn khôn: Grown and wise (a less common variant with similar meaning).

Related Phrases

• Nuôi cho khôn lớn: To raise (a child) to maturity.
  • Công ơn cha mẹ nuôi con khôn lớn. (The debt of gratitude to parents for raising their child to adulthood.)
• Khôn lớn nên người: To grow up to be a proper person.
  • Chúc cháu khôn lớn nên người. (I wish you grow up to be a fine person.)

1. Grow up to the age of discretion