Definition

1. Adverbial phrase:
   • Very easily, effortlessly, like child's play: "như chơi" describes an action performed with extreme ease, as if it were a simple game or required no serious effort. It emphasizes the lack of difficulty or challenge.

Usage Examples

• Adverbial phrase:
  • Bài toán làm như chơi. (The math problem was solved effortlessly / like child's play.)
  • Anh ấy chạy 10km như chơi. (He ran 10km as if it were nothing.)
  • Công việc này với cô ấy dễ như chơi. (This job is as easy as pie for her.)

Advanced Usage

• "dễ như chơi": an even more emphatic variant meaning "extremely easy," literally "easy like playing."
  • Bài kiểm tra hôm nay dễ như chơi. (Today's test was a piece of cake.)
• Used to downplay one's own skill or effort, often modestly, after completing a difficult task.
  • "Làm được rồi à? Khó không?" – "Không, làm như chơi thôi." ("You finished it? Was it hard?" – "No, it was a breeze.")

Variants and Related Words

• Chơi (verb): to play.
• Dễ dàng (adj/adverb): easy, easily. (A more standard synonym without the figurative comparison.)
• Dễ ợt (adj, informal): very easy, a cinch. (Carries a similar informal, emphatic tone.)

Synonyms

• Rất dễ dàng: very easily.
• Dễ như ăn kẹo (idiom): as easy as eating candy (very easy).
• Không khó khăn gì: without any difficulty.

Related Idioms

• "Như không": as if it were nothing. (Similar in meaning, focusing on the negligible effort.)
  • Anh ta nâng tạ 100kg như không. (He lifted the 100kg weight as if it were nothing.)
• "Dễ như trở bàn tay": as easy as turning one's hand over. (Another idiom for extreme ease.)

Notes on Usage

• "Như chơi" is an informal, colloquial phrase commonly used in spoken Vietnamese.
• It functions as an adverbial phrase, typically following the verb it modifies.
• The phrase carries a connotation of something being so simple it feels like recreation rather than work.

1. [Like] child's play
   • Bài toán làm như chơi
     The mathematics problem was just child's play