kham

Thân thiện

Người nông dân kham việc đồng áng dưới nắng.

Definition

1. Verb:
   • To bear; to endure; to withstand: "kham" means to have the capacity or strength to tolerate something difficult, challenging, or unpleasant, such as hardship, heavy work, or suffering.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Anh ấy kham được công việc vất vả này. (He can endure this hard work.)
  • Cô ấy kham khổ rất giỏi. (She is very good at bearing hardship.)
  • Sức khỏe yếu nên tôi không kham nổi. (Due to poor health, I cannot bear it.)

Advanced Usage

• "khả kham": bearable, endurable.
  • Gánh nặng này vẫn còn khả kham. (This burden is still bearable.)
• "bất kham": unbearable, unendurable.
  • Nỗi đau thể xác lẫn tinh thần là bất kham. (The physical and mental pain is unbearable.)

Variants and Related Words

• Chịu đựng (verb): to endure, to tolerate. (A common synonym with a very similar meaning.)
• Kham khổ (adjective/adverbial phrase): enduring hardship; living a hard but enduring life.
  • Cuộc sống kham khổ ở vùng cao. (The hardscrabble life in the highlands.)

Synonyms

• Chịu: to bear, to suffer.
• Chịu đựng: to endure, to tolerate.
• Cầm cự: to hold out, to endure (often in a difficult situation).

Related Phrases (Phrasal Verbs)

(Note: "kham" is typically used with complements rather than forming phrasal verbs with prepositions.) - Kham được: to be able to bear/endure. - Không biết anh ta có kham được không. (I don't know if he can endure it.) - Kham nổi: to be able to bear/endure (often in negative constructions). - Sức tôi không kham nổi việc đó. (My strength cannot bear that task.)

Related Idioms

• Kham việc: to be capable of handling (heavy) work.
  • Anh ấy là người rất kham việc. (He is a very capable and hardworking person.)
• Ăn kham ở kham: to live a simple, frugal, and enduring life.
  • Cả đời cụ ăn kham ở kham để nuôi con ăn học. (All her life, she lived frugally and endured hardship to raise and educate her children.)

Học thuật

verb

1. to bear; to endure
   • không kham nổi
     unendurable