Definition

1. Adverb:
   • Like this, this way, so: Used to indicate a manner, method, or situation that is being demonstrated or referred to at the moment of speaking. It often points to something physically present or immediately preceding.
2. Adjective:
   • (In the state of being) like this, such: Describes a condition or state that is as currently shown or mentioned.
3. Verb (literary/archaic):
   • To gather, to assemble, to be united: Refers to people coming together, often in a joyful or familial context.
   • To mess up, to crumple, to stir up: To handle something roughly, making it untidy or disturbing its state (e.g., stirring water, crumpling paper).

Usage Examples

• Adverb:
  • Làm như vầy. (Do it like this.)
  • Tại sao mọi chuyện lại thành ra vầy? (Why did things turn out like this?)
• Adjective:
  • Cuộc sống vầy cũng tốt. (A life like this is also good.)
• Verb:
  • Gia đình sum vầy. (The family gathers together.)
  • Đừng vầy trang sách. (Don't crumple the book page.)
  • Trẻ con vầy nước dưới mưa. (The children stir up the water in the rain.)

Advanced Usage

• "sum vầy": to reunite, to gather (especially family). This is a fixed, common compound.
  • Tết là dịp để gia đình sum vầy. (Tet is an occasion for family reunion.)
• "vầy duyên" (archaic/poetic): to unite in marriage, to form a conjugal bond.
  • Vầy duyên cá nước. (To be united in love like fish and water.)

Variants and Related Words

• Vậy (adv): A more common and neutral synonym for "like that/so," often used where "vầy" (like this) is used, but "vậy" can refer to something less immediate.
• Như vầy (phrase): Meaning "like this," often used for clear demonstration.

Synonyms

• Like this, this way, so (for adverb usage).
• Gather, assemble (for verb usage).
• Crumple, mess up (for verb usage).

Related Idioms

• Hạt ngọc để ngâu vầy: Literally "to throw pearls to pigs," meaning to offer something valuable to those who cannot appreciate it (a direct equivalent of "cast pearls before swine").
• Vui vầy: To be happily gathered together.
  • Cả nhà quây quần vui vầy. (The whole family gathered happily together.)

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