Definition

1. Verb:
   • To lodge, to be accommodated: Refers to the basic activities of eating and sleeping in a place, indicating where one stays or lives.
   • To live as man and wife, to sleep together: In a colloquial context, it refers to having a sexual relationship or cohabiting as a couple.

Usage Examples

• Verb (To lodge):

  • Chỗ ăn nằm của sinh viên rất đơn giản. (The students' lodgings are very simple.)
  • Công ty lo chỗ ăn nằm cho công nhân. (The company arranges accommodation for the workers.)

• Verb (To sleep together):

  • Hai người đó đã ăn nằm với nhau trước khi kết hôn. (Those two slept together before getting married.)
  • Tin đồn họ ăn nằm với nhau đã lan khắp làng. (The rumor that they were sleeping together spread throughout the village.)

Advanced Usage

• "ăn chay nằm đất": To live in strict austerity (e.g., during mourning or religious observance).

  • Tang gia ăn chay nằm đất trong ba năm. (The bereaved family lived in strict austerity for three years.)

• "ăn đợi nằm chờ": To wait idly and impatiently.

  • Anh ta ăn đợi nằm chờ kết quả phỏng vấn. (He waited idly and impatiently for the interview results.)

Variants and Related Words

• Chỗ ăn nằm (noun phrase): Lodging, accommodation.
  • Chỗ ăn nằm tạm thời. (Temporary lodgings.)

Synonyms

• To lodge, to stay: Trú ngụ, cư trú.
• To cohabit, to sleep together: Chung sống, quan hệ tình dục.

Related Phrases (Phrasal Verbs)

(This word is typically used as a fixed compound verb and does not form standard phrasal verbs.)

Related Idioms

• "Ăn chay nằm đất": As described in Advanced Usage.
• "Ăn đợi nằm chờ": As described in Advanced Usage.

verb

1. To be lodged, to be accommodated
   • chỗ ăn nằm tiện nghi
     comfortable lodgings
2. To live as man and wife, to sleep together
   • mụ đàn bà lăng loàn ấy sẵn sàng ăn nằm với bất kỳ người đàn ông nào giàu có
     that termagant is ready to sleep with any rich man
   • có tin đồn rằng họ đã ăn nằm với nhau trước đám cưới
     rumour has it that they have lived together as husband and wife before their wedding, rumour has it that they have slept together (set up house together) before their wedding
   • ăn chay nằm đất
     to live in strict austerity (in sign of mourning or as religious observance)
   • ăn đợi nằm chờ
     to cool one's heels