Definition

1. Verb:
   • To wait for, to expect (often with anticipation or anxiety): "ngóng" refers to the act of waiting for someone or something, typically with a sense of eagerness, longing, or slight worry.
   • To look out for, to watch for: It can imply actively looking or watching in the direction from which someone or something is expected to arrive.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Con ngóng mẹ đi làm về. (The child waits for their mother to come home from work.)
  • Cả gia đình ngóng tin anh ấy. (The whole family is waiting for news from him.)
  • Cô ấy ngóng ra cửa sổ suốt buổi chiều. (She spent the whole afternoon looking out the window [waiting].)

Advanced Usage

• "Ngóng chờ": to wait expectantly, to long for (a slightly more formal or literary combination).

  • Người dân ngóng chờ ngày đất nước thống nhất. (The people longed for the day of national reunification.)

• "Trông ngóng": to look forward to, to hope for (emphasizes both the visual aspect of looking and the emotional aspect of waiting).

  • Chúng tôi trông ngóng kết quả cuộc thi. (We are looking forward to the contest results.)

Variants and Related Words

• Ngóng ngóng (reduplicative form): To wait eagerly, to expect impatiently. This form intensifies the feeling of anticipation or anxiety.

  • Nó cứ ngóng ngóng bố về để khoe quà. (He kept eagerly waiting for his father to come home to show off his gift.)

• Ngóng vọng (literary): To gaze into the distance with longing.

  • Ngóng vọng phương xa. (To gaze longingly into the far distance.)

Synonyms

• Chờ: to wait (more general and neutral).
• Trông chờ: to hope for, to await.
• Mong: to hope, to wish for.
• Mong ngóng: to eagerly await (a synonym combination).

Related Phrases (Phrasal Verbs)

• Ngóng tin: to wait for news/information.

  • Cả nhà đang ngóng tin anh ấy. (The whole family is waiting for news from him.)

• Ngóng về: to wait for someone to return/home.

  • Mẹ ngóng con về ăn cơm. (The mother waits for her child to come home for dinner.)

Related Idioms

• Ngóng cổ lên mà trông: (To crane one's neck to look) To wait very eagerly, stretching to see.

  • Khán giả ngóng cổ lên mà trông đoàn diễu hành. (The audience craned their necks to see the parade.)

• Ngóng như ngóng nắng, trông như trông mưa: (To wait as if waiting for sunshine, to look as if looking for rain) To wait with great but often futile hope.

  • Anh ấy ngóng tin việc làm như ngóng nắng, trông như trông mưa. (He waits for job news with desperate, almost hopeless, anticipation.)

1. Wait for, expect
   • Con ngóng mẹ đi làm về
     The children waited for their mother to coe home from work
   • Ngong ngóng (láy, ý tăng)
     Wait for eagerly, expect eagerly