Definition

1. Noun:

   • Destiny, fortune, luck: A predetermined course of events, often considered mystical or beyond one's control, encompassing both good and bad luck.

2. Verb:

   • To wear, to put on (clothing): To dress oneself in garments. (This usage is considered dialectal or colloquial).
   • To transport, to convey: To move goods or materials from one place to another.
   • To exert, to apply (effort): To use or bring to bear one's strength, energy, or reasoning.
   • To attribute, to impute: To assign or connect something (often a matter or blame) to someone or something else.

Usage Examples

• Noun:

  • Anh ấy đang gặp vận may. (He is having good luck.)
  • Số phận mỗi người đều có vận riêng. (Everyone's fate has its own fortune.)

• Verb (to wear):

  • Bà cụ vận bộ áo bà ba màu nâu. (The old lady wore a set of brown peasant blouse and trousers.)

• Verb (to transport):

  • Xe tải vận chuyển hàng hóa ra cảng. (The truck transports goods to the port.)

• Verb (to exert):

  • Cô ấy vận hết trí óc để giải bài toán. (She exerted all her mental power to solve the math problem.)

• Verb (to attribute):

  • Đừng có vận chuyện của người khác vào mình. (Don't attribute other people's matters to yourself.)

Advanced Usage

• "Vận vào": To impute to, to pin on someone.

  • Anh ta cứ vận tội lỗi vào đồng nghiệp. (He keeps imputing the faults onto his colleague.)

• "Vận hết sức (lực)": To exert all one's strength/effort.

  • Đội bóng vận hết sức lực trong hiệp hai. (The football team exerted all their effort in the second half.)

Variants and Related Words

• Vận may (n): Good luck, good fortune.
• Vận rủi (n): Bad luck, misfortune.
• Vận chuyển (v): To transport, to ship. (This is a compound verb where "chuyển" intensifies the meaning of moving).
• Vận động (v): To move (physically); to campaign, to lobby. (This is a distinct compound verb).
• Vận mệnh (n): Destiny, fate. (This is a compound noun).

Synonyms

• Noun (destiny): Số phận (fate), định mệnh (destiny), may rủi (luck).
• Verb (to wear): Mặc (to wear - standard), khoác (to don).
• Verb (to transport): Chuyên chở (to carry), chở (to carry).
• Verb (to exert): Dùng hết (to use up), đem hết ra (to bring all out).

Related Phrases (Phrasal Verbs)

• Vận vào (mình/ai đó): As mentioned in advanced usage, this functions like a phrasal verb meaning to attribute something (often negatively) to oneself or someone else.

Related Idioms

• "Gặp vận": To encounter good luck/fortune.
  • Nhờ gặp vận, công việc của anh ấy phất lên nhanh chóng. (Thanks to encountering good fortune, his business took off quickly.)
• "Đen vận": To have a streak of bad luck.
  • Tháng nay tôi đen vận, làm gì cũng hỏng. (This month I have bad luck, everything I do fails.)

noun

1. destiny, fortune

verb

1. to wear, to put on