Definition

1. 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.)

1. Late night, late during the night
   • Đêm hôm mà còn đi chơi
     To go out though it is late at night