Definition

1. Verb:
   • To make friends: To establish a friendly relationship with someone, to become friends.
   • To marry: To enter into a marriage or a lifelong partnership with someone; to become husband and wife.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Tôi muốn làm bạn với cô ấy. (I want to make friends with her.)
  • Họ đã làm bạn với nhau từ mười năm trước. (They married each other ten years ago.)
  • Làm bạn với những người lạc quan sẽ giúp bạn vui vẻ hơn. (Making friends with optimistic people will help you be happier.)

Advanced Usage

• The phrase can imply a deep, committed bond beyond casual friendship, often context-dependent to distinguish between "befriending" and "marrying."
• In older or more formal contexts, especially in literature, "làm bạn" is more commonly used to mean "to marry."

Variants and Related Words

• Kết bạn (v): To befriend, to become friends (more common for the "making friends" meaning in modern usage).
  • Tôi kết bạn với anh ấy trên mạng xã hội. (I befriended him on social media.)
• Làm vợ chồng (v): To become husband and wife (explicitly means to marry).
  • Họ quyết định làm vợ chồng. (They decided to marry.)

Synonyms

• To make friends: To befriend, to become friends with.
• To marry: To wed, to get married.

Related Idioms

• Làm bạn trăm năm: To marry (literally "to be friends for a hundred years"), emphasizing a lifelong marital bond.
  • Họ chúc nhau sớm làm bạn trăm năm. (They wished each other to marry soon.)

verb

1. to make friends ; to marry