rủ

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Bạn ấy rủ tôi đi xem phim.

Definition

1. Verb:

   • To invite along; to ask to join: To persuade or call for someone to go somewhere or do something together with you.
   • To hang down; to droop: To fall or bend downward loosely and often gracefully.

2. Adjective:

   • Lowered (as a sign of mourning): Describing a flag positioned at half-mast.
   • Moved to pity (archaic/literary): Feeling compassion or mercy (used in the fixed phrase "rủ lòng").

Usage Examples

• Verb (to invite):

  • Tôi định rủ bạn cùng đi xem phim. (I intend to invite my friend to go see a movie with me.)
  • Bọn trẻ rủ nhau đi bơi. (The children asked each other to go swimming together.)

• Verb (to hang down):

  • Mái tóc dài rủ xuống vai cô ấy. (Her long hair hung down over her shoulders.)
  • Cành liễu rủ bên hồ. (The willow branch drooped by the lake.)

• Adjective:

  • Cả nước treo cờ rủ để tưởng niệm. (The whole country flew flags at half-mast in remembrance.)
  • Nhìn cảnh tượng thương tâm, ai mà chẳng rủ lòng. (Looking at the heartbreaking scene, who wouldn't be moved to pity.)

Advanced Usage

• "rủ rê": To persistently invite or entice someone (often with a slightly negative connotation of persuasion).
  • Nó rủ rê bạn bè bỏ học đi chơi. (He enticed his friends to skip school and go out.)

Variants and Related Words

• Rủ rỉ (v): To whisper, to talk softly and privately.
  • Hai người ngồi rủ rỉ nói chuyện cả tối. (The two sat whispering to each other all evening.)

Synonyms

• To invite along: Mời, kêu gọi.
• To hang down: Buông thõng, xõa xuống.
• At half-mast: Treo ở vị trí tang lễ (for flags).

Related Idioms

• Rủ nhau đi...: A very common structure meaning "to get together and go...".

  • Rủ nhau đi ăn sáng. (To get together and go for breakfast.)

• Rủ lòng thương: To take pity on, to have compassion for (a fixed literary phrase).

  • Xin ngài rủ lòng thương mà tha thứ. (I beg you to have mercy and forgive.)

Học thuật

1. Call for (someone and ask him to go or do something with one)
   • Rủ nhau đi cày
     To call for each other and go ploughing together
2. Hang down
   • Trướng rủ màn che
     Hanging baldachin and curtain
   • Cờ rủ
     Flag at half-mast
   • Rủ lòng thương
     To have compassion for, to feel pity for, to have mercy on