nhốt
Definition
- Verb:
- To shut up; to confine; to impound: The primary meaning is to place and keep a person or animal inside a confined space, such as a room, cage, or prison, often by locking it.
Usage Examples
- Verb:
- Người ta nhốt con chó dữ vào chuồng. (They shut the fierce dog up in its kennel.)
- Cảnh sát đã nhốt tên trộm vào phòng giam. (The police confined the thief in a detention cell.)
- Đừng nhốt mèo trong phòng tắm. (Don't shut the cat up in the bathroom.)
Advanced Usage
- "nhốt mình": To shut oneself in, to seclude oneself.
- Anh ấy nhốt mình trong phòng để học bài. (He shut himself in his room to study.)
- "nhốt kín": To lock up securely.
- Chiếc xe bị nhốt kín trong garage cả tuần. (The car was locked up securely in the garage for a whole week.)
Variants and Related Words
- Giam (verb): To imprison, to detain (often for legal/penal reasons, stronger connotation than ).
- Nhét (verb): To stuff, to cram into (implies forcing into a tight space).
- Cầm tù (verb): To incarcerate, to hold captive (formal, for people).
Synonyms
- Giam giữ: To detain, to hold in custody.
- Bỏ tù: To put in jail.
- Nhồi nhét: To cram (into).
Related Phrases (Phrasal Verbs)
- Nhốt lại: To lock up (again), to re-confine.
- Trời mưa rồi, mau nhốt gà lại đi. (It's raining, quickly shut the chickens back up.)
- Nhốt chung: To confine together.
- Hai con mèo bị nhốt chung một lồng. (The two cats were confined together in one cage.)
Related Idioms
- Nhốt gió vào lồng: Literally "to shut the wind in a cage"; an idiom meaning to attempt the impossible or to try to control something uncontrollable.
- Muốn bắt nó ngồi yên chẳng khác nào nhốt gió vào lồng. (Trying to make him sit still is like trying to cage the wind.)
verb
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to shut up; to confine; to impound
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