đêm hôm
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Definition
- Noun Phrase:
- Late night, late at night: Refers to a time period that is deep into the night, well after dark and typically when most people are asleep.
Usage
- đêm hôm is used to emphasize the lateness of the hour within the nighttime. It often carries a nuance of something happening at an unusually late or inconvenient time.
- It functions as a temporal adverbial phrase, typically placed at the beginning or within a sentence to specify the time of an action.
Usage Examples
- As a temporal phrase:
- Đêm hôm mà tiếng ồn vẫn vang lên. (Late at night, the noise still echoed.)
- Anh ấy thường làm việc đến đêm hôm. (He often works until late at night.)
- Đêm hôm trời trở lạnh. (Late at night, the weather turned cold.)
Advanced Usage
- "khuya khoắt đêm hôm": This is an intensified, more literary phrase meaning "in the dead of night" or "very late at night," emphasizing stillness and depth.
- Khuya khoắt đêm hôm, chỉ còn tiếng gió. (In the dead of night, only the sound of the wind remained.)
Variants and Related Words
- Đêm khuya (n): A very common synonym for đêm hôm, also meaning "late night."
- Thức đêm khuya không tốt cho sức khỏe. (Staying up late is not good for your health.)
- Nửa đêm (n): Midnight. Specifies the middle point of the night.
- Chuông đồng hồ điểm mười hai giờ nửa đêm. (The clock struck twelve midnight.)
- Tối hôm (n): Evening, tonight. Refers to the earlier part of the night or the coming night.
- Tối hôm nay chúng ta đi xem phim. (We are going to the movies tonight.)
Synonyms
- Đêm khuya: Late night.
- Khuya: Late (in the context of night).
Related Idioms
- Đêm hôm khuya khoắt: An idiom meaning "in the deep of night" or "at a very late hour," stressing the extreme lateness and quiet.
- Đêm hôm khuya khoắt, anh ấy vẫn chong đèn đọc sách. (In the deep of night, he was still staying up reading by the lamp.)
- Late night, late during the night
- Đêm hôm mà còn đi chơiTo go out though it is late at night