muôn đời

Tình bạn của họ sẽ tồn tại muôn đời.

Definition

1. Adverb:

   • Forever / for all eternity: Indicates an infinite, unending duration of time, often with a poetic or solemn tone.
   • Perpetually / everlastingly: Describes something that continues without end, across all ages.

2. Adjective (attributive):

   • Eternal / everlasting: Used before a noun to describe something as timeless, enduring through all ages.

Usage Examples

• Adverb:
  • Tình yêu đó sẽ tồn tại muôn đời. (That love will exist forever.)
  • Anh hùng dân tộc được ghi nhớ muôn đời. (National heroes are remembered for all eternity.)
• Adjective:
  • Đó là một chân lý muôn đời. (That is an eternal truth.)
  • Họ hứa hẹn một tình bạn muôn đời. (They promised an everlasting friendship.)

Advanced Usage

• Often used in formal, literary, or rhetorical contexts such as poetry, proverbs, historical narratives, and solemn promises to emphasize permanence and timelessness.
• Can be combined with negation to mean "never forever."
  • Lời thề muôn đời không thay đổi. (A vow that will never change forever.)

Variants and Related Words

• Muôn thuở (adv/adj): A synonym with identical meaning and usage, also meaning forever, eternal.
  • Sự thật muôn thuở. (An eternal truth.)
• Muôn năm (exclamation/phrase): Meaning "long live" or "ten thousand years," used as an acclamation.
  • Muôn năm Tổ quốc! (Long live the Fatherland!)

Synonyms

• Forever: For all future time.
• Eternal: Lasting or existing forever.
• Everlasting: Lasting forever or for a very long time.
• Perpetual: Never ending or changing.

Related Idioms and Phrases

• Muôn đời muôn kiếp: For eternity and across all lifetimes; emphasizes an unimaginably long duration spanning multiple existences.
  • Tôi sẽ biết ơn anh muôn đời muôn kiếp. (I will be grateful to you for all eternity and lifetimes.)
• Bền vững muôn đời: To be eternally stable or enduring.
  • Nguyện ước một nền hòa bình bền vững muôn đời. (The wish for a peace that endures forever.)