ngắt

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Một cô bé ngắt một bông hoa hồng trong vườn.

Definition

Verb:
- To interrupt; to cut off: To stop something that is continuous or in progress, especially speech or a flow.
- To pick; to pluck; to pinch off: To detach something, like a flower or leaf, by pinching or breaking it with the fingers.
- To turn off; to switch off: To stop the operation of a device, machine, or utility (e.g., electricity).
Adjective (used as a complement after adjectives): Extremely; utterly; completely. Used to intensify an adjective, often describing a pure, intense, and sometimes undesirable state (e.g., of color, temperature, or feeling).

Usage Examples

Verb (to interrupt/cut off):
- Đừng ngắt lời tôi. (Don't interrupt me.)
- Anh ấy ngắt dòng điện. (He cut off the electricity.)
Verb (to pick/pluck):
- Cô bé ngắt một bông hoa trong vườn. (The little girl picked a flower in the garden.)
Adjective (as a complement):
- Bầu trời xanh ngắt. (The sky is an intense, pure blue.)
- Căn phòng im lặng ngắt. (The room is utterly silent.)
- Cà phê đắng ngắt. (The coffee is extremely bitter.)

Advanced Usage

"ngắt quãng": to be intermittent; to be discontinuous.
- Cuộc trò chuyện bị ngắt quãng nhiều lần. (The conversation was interrupted many times.)
"ngắt mạch": to break a circuit; to disconnect.
- Công tắc này dùng để ngắt mạch điện. (This switch is used to break the electrical circuit.)

Variants and Related Words

Synonyms

Related Idioms and Phrases

Lạnh ngắt: extremely cold (often with a desolate feeling).
- Đêm mùa đông lạnh ngắt. (The winter night is piercingly cold.)
Vắng ngắt: completely deserted/vacant.
- Con đường vắng ngắt. (The road is utterly deserted.)
Chán ngắt: extremely boring; utterly dull.
- Bộ phim đó chán ngắt. (That movie is terribly boring.)

Một cô bé ngắt một bông hoa hồng trong vườn.

verb

to interrupt
- ngắt lời người nào
  to interrupt someone. to pick; to pluck; to pinch off

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