Definition

1. Demonstrative Pronoun/Adjective:

   • This (high, this much, this big): Used to indicate a specific size, height, or amount, often accompanied by a hand gesture.
   • (Dialectal) This, like this: A regional variant of "này" (this).

2. Noun:

   • Flabby fat part of pork sides: The soft, flabby, and often fibrous layer of fat from a pig's belly.

3. Adjective:

   • Flabbily fat, plump, chubby: Describes a person or body part that is soft, round, and somewhat flabby with fat.

Usage Examples

• Demonstrative Pronoun/Adjective:

  • Nó bây giờ đã lớn bằng nây. (He is now about this big/tall.)
  • Bên nây, bên kia. (On this side, on that side.) [Dialectal usage]

• Noun:

  • Thịt nây thường rất ngậy. (The flabby pork belly fat is often very rich.)

• Adjective:

  • Ăn gì mà béo nây thế? (What has he/she eaten to be so flabbily fat?)
  • Người tròn nây. (A plump, chubby body.)

Advanced Usage

• "lớn bằng nây": as big/tall as this (often with a hand showing height).

  • Con tôi năm ngoái chỉ cao bằng nây. (My child was only this tall last year.)

• "béo nây": describes a specific type of soft, flabby obesity, not just general fatness.

  • Sau khi sinh, cô ấy trở nên béo nây. (After giving birth, she became flabbily fat.)

Variants and Related Words

• Này (pronoun/adjective): This. The standard, more common form of the demonstrative meaning.

  • Người này (This person).

• Mỡ nây (noun phrase): Specifically refers to the flabby pork fat.

  • Món ăn này có nhiều mỡ nây. (This dish has a lot of flabby pork fat.)

Synonyms

• Bằng này (phrase): About this much/this big. A more standard synonym for the demonstrative use.
• Béo phì (adj): Obese. (More clinical, lacks the connotation of flabbiness).
• Mập mạp (adj): Plump, chubby. (Often more positive/neutral than "béo nây").

Related Phrases

• Thịt nây (noun phrase): Meat from the flabby part of the pork belly.
  • Thịt nây dùng để kho là ngon. (Flabby pork belly is delicious for braising.)

Related Idioms

• Bên nây sông, bên kia sông (idiom): On this side of the river, on that side of the river. (Highlights the dialectal use of "nây" for "này").
  • Cuộc sống bên nây sông khác hẳn. (Life on this side of the river is completely different.)

1. This (high, much...), that (high, much...)
   • Nó bây giờ đã lớn bằng nây
     He is now about this high
2. Flabby fat part of pork sides
3. Flabbily fat
   • Ăn gì mà béo nây thế?
     What has he eaten to be so flabbily fat?
4. (địa phương) như này