vất vả

Thân thiện

Người nông dân làm việc vất vả trên cánh đồng.

Definition

1. Tính từ (Adjective):

   • Hard, strenuous, difficult: Describes work, a task, or a situation that requires a lot of physical or mental effort and is tiring.
   • In difficulties, struggling: Describes a life, circumstance, or person facing hardship, poverty, or a lack of ease.

2. Phó từ (Adverb):

   • Laboriously, with great effort, hard: Describes the manner of doing something, indicating it is done with much difficulty and exertion.

Usage Examples

• Tính từ (Adjective):

  • Công việc này rất vất vả. (This job is very hard/strenuous.)
  • Họ có một cuộc sống vất vả. (They have a difficult/struggling life.)
  • Anh ấy vất vả về đường con cái. (He has difficulties/hardships regarding his children.)

• Phó từ (Adverb):

  • Người nông dân làm việc vất vả cả ngày. (The farmer works laboriously all day.)
  • Cô ấy vất vả tìm kiếm tài liệu. (She searched for the documents with great effort.)

Advanced Usage

• The word can be used to express that achieving something required significant struggle.

  • Nó vất vả lắm mới leo lên tới đỉnh núi. (He struggled hard to climb to the mountain top.)

• It can describe misfortune or lack of luck in a specific aspect of life.

  • Vất vả về đường tình duyên. (To be unlucky/unfortunate in love.)

Variants and Related Words

• Nhọc nhằn (adj): arduous, toilsome. A close synonym emphasizing physical fatigue.
• Cực khổ (adj): miserable, suffering. Often implies a deeper level of hardship and suffering.
• Khó nhọc (adj): difficult, laborious.

Synonyms

• Strenuous: requiring great exertion.
• Arduous: involving difficult labor.
• Laborious: requiring much work and effort.
• Difficult: hard to do or achieve.
• Hard-pressed: in difficulties.

Related Idioms and Phrases

• Vật lộn, vất vả: to struggle and strive. This phrase intensifies the meaning of hard work and difficulty.

  • Vật lộn, vất vả để nuôi con. (To struggle and strive to raise children.)

• Đầu tắt mặt tối: (idiom) literally "head off, face dark," meaning to be extremely busy and work from dawn till dusk, closely related to the state of being vất vả.

  • Công việc kinh doanh khiến anh ấy đầu tắt mặt tối. (The business keeps him extremely busy and overworked.)

Học thuật

adj

1. hard, strenuous, in difficulties

adv

1. laborously, hard