Definition

1. Noun:
   • A multi-story house: "nhà gác" refers to a house with two or more floors or stories. It is a traditional term for a building with multiple levels.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Gia đình tôi sống trong một ngôi nhà gác cổ. (My family lives in an old multi-story house.)
  • Khu phố này có nhiều nhà gác đẹp. (This neighborhood has many beautiful multi-story houses.)

Advanced Usage

• "nhà gác" as a traditional term: While still understood, "nhà gác" is a somewhat older term. In modern, everyday conversation, "nhà lầu" is more commonly used to mean the same thing.
  • Ở thành phố, nhà gác (nhà lầu) phổ biến hơn nhà một tầng. (In the city, multi-story houses are more common than single-story houses.)

Variants and Related Words

• Nhà lầu (n): This is the more common contemporary synonym for "nhà gác", meaning a multi-story house or building.

  • Cô ấy vừa mua một căn nhà lầu mới. (She just bought a new multi-story house.)

• Biệt thự (n): Villa. This is a different type of building, often a large, luxurious, detached house, which may or may not have multiple stories.

  • Khu đó toàn là những biệt thự sang trọng. (That area is full of luxurious villas.)

• Tòa nhà (n): Building. A general term for any building, which can include multi-story structures like offices or apartments.

  • Tòa nhà văn phòng này có hai mươi tầng. (This office building has twenty floors.)

Synonyms

• Nhà lầu: multi-story house (the most direct and common synonym).
• Nhà nhiều tầng: house with many floors (a descriptive synonym).

1. cũng nói nhà lầu. Many-storied house