quá ư
Học thuậtThân thiện
Definition
- Adverb:
- Excessively, extremely, too much: "quá ư" is an adverb used to emphasize that a degree, state, or characteristic exceeds a normal or acceptable level, often implying surprise, criticism, or strong emotion.
Usage Examples
- Adverb:
- Thời tiết hôm nay nóng quá ư! (The weather today is excessively hot!)
- Anh ấy cẩn thận quá ư, đến mức mất nhiều thời gian. (He is overly careful, to the point of wasting a lot of time.)
- Cô ấy tốt bụng quá ư. (She is extremely kind-hearted.)
Advanced Usage
- "quá ư là...": This structure reinforces the degree even more, translating to "is really too...".
- Cậu bé này quá ư là nghịch ngợm. (This boy is really too mischievous.)
- Used to express subjective judgment, often with a negative connotation about something being unreasonable or beyond expectation, but can also be used for positive emphasis.
- Giá cả ở đây đắt quá ư! (The prices here are ridiculously expensive!)
- Bài hát này hay quá ư! (This song is amazingly good!)
Variants and Related Words
- Quá (adv): Too, very. A more common and slightly less emphatic synonym.
- quá đẹp (too beautiful/very beautiful)
- Quá lắm (adv): Too much, extremely. A near-identical synonym to "quá ư", as noted in Vietnamese-Vietnamese dictionaries.
- tồi quá lắm (extremely bad)
- Quá mức (adv/phrase): Excessive, beyond the limit. Focuses more on exceeding a standard.
- tốn kém quá mức (excessively costly)
- Ư (particle): An archaic or literary particle sometimes used for emphasis, similar to "quá", but rarely used alone in modern Vietnamese outside of fixed phrases like "quá ư".
Synonyms
- Cực kỳ: Extremely.
- Vô cùng: Extremely, immensely.
- Hết sức: Extremely, utterly.
Related Phrases
- Quá ư dễ dàng: Excessively easy.
- Quá ư phức tạp: Overly complicated.
- Quá ư đáng tiếc: Extremely regrettable.
Notes on Usage
- Register: "Quá ư" is commonly used in both spoken and written Vietnamese. It carries a stronger emphatic tone than the simple "quá".
- Position: It typically precedes an adjective (e.g., ) or follows a verb/adjective to modify it (e.g., ). Both positions are correct, with the post-positive position being very common in exclamations.
- Emotion: The phrase often conveys the speaker's strong personal feeling—be it admiration, annoyance, or shock—about the high degree of a quality.
- Excessively, extremely
- Quá ư tồi tệExcessively bad