tí teo

Thân thiện

Hai đứa trẻ chia nhau một chiếc bánh tí teo.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Very little, tiny, minuscule: Used to describe an extremely small size, amount, or degree, often with a nuance of cuteness or insignificance. It is a reduplicative form that intensifies the meaning of "tí" (a little bit).

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Căn phòng này nhỏ tí teo. (This room is tiny.)
  • Nó chỉ ăn một miếng bánh tí teo. (He only ate a minuscule piece of cake.)
  • Lợi nhuận thu về tí teo, không đáng kể. (The profit earned was very little, insignificant.)

Advanced Usage

• The word is often used in informal, colloquial speech to add emphasis or an expressive, sometimes endearing, tone when describing smallness.
• It can describe abstract quantities (e.g., hope, effort) as well as physical size.

Variants and Related Words

• Tí (adj): A little, a bit. The root word.
  • Cho tôi một tí đường. (Give me a little sugar.)
• Tí tẹo (adj): A synonym with identical meaning and usage to "tí teo".
  • Chỉ còn lại tí tẹo. (Only a tiny bit remains.)
• Nhỏ xíu (adj): Very small, tiny.
• Bé tí (adj): Very little (often for living things or endearing contexts).

Synonyms

• Minuscule: Extremely small.
• Tiny: Very small.
• Negligible: So small as to be unimportant.

Related Idioms and Expressions

• Tí teo tí tẹo: A further reduplicated form for added emphasis, meaning "extremely tiny little bits".
  • Công việc tiến triển tí teo tí tẹo. (The work is progressing in tiny, tiny increments.)

Học thuật

adj

1. very little