thất tung
Definition
- Adjective (Legal, Archaic):
- Absent / Missing: Describes a person whose whereabouts are unknown, particularly in a legal context where they have failed to appear as required.
- To have disappeared: Indicates that someone has vanished or cannot be located.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- Bị cáo đã thất tung và không đến tòa. (The defendant is absent and did not come to court.)
- Sau trận bão, nhiều người dân bị thất tung. (After the storm, many residents are missing.)
Advanced Usage
- This term is primarily found in formal or legal documents from earlier periods of the Vietnamese language. In modern usage, words like "mất tích" (missing) or "vắng mặt" (absent) are more common.
Variants and Related Words
Thất lạc (adj): to be lost (typically for objects, not people).
- Chiếc ví đã bị thất lạc. (The wallet was lost.)
Mất tích (adj): missing, disappeared (the standard modern term for a person).
- Cậu bé đã mất tích hai ngày. (The boy has been missing for two days.)
Synonyms
- Absent: Not present.
- Missing: Unable to be found.
- Disappeared: Vanished from sight or knowledge.
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