đôi khi
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Definition
Adverb: - Sometimes; occasionally; at times: Used to indicate that an action, event, or state occurs not regularly or all the time, but rather infrequently or intermittently.
Usage Examples
- Adverb:
- Đôi khi tôi thích ở một mình. (Sometimes I like to be alone.)
- Thời tiết ở đây đôi khi rất lạnh. (The weather here is occasionally very cold.)
- Đôi khi cô ấy đến muộn. (At times, she arrives late.)
Advanced Usage
- Used to soften statements or express moderation, indicating an action is not the norm.
- Đôi khi, thất bại lại là một bài học quý giá. (Sometimes, failure is a valuable lesson.)
Variants and Related Words
- Đôi lúc (adv): A direct synonym, meaning "sometimes" or "now and then."
- Đôi lúc tôi tự hỏi về điều đó. (Now and then I wonder about that.)
- Thỉnh thoảng (adv): Occasionally, once in a while.
- Chúng tôi thỉnh thoảng mới gặp nhau. (We only meet occasionally.)
- Đôi phen (adv, literary): On a few occasions; sometimes.
- Đôi phen sóng gió. (Sometimes there are storms [figuratively, troubles].)
Synonyms
- Sometimes: On some occasions but not always.
- Occasionally: Now and then; infrequently.
- At times: On certain occasions.
Related Idioms and Phrases
- Đôi khi... đôi khi...: A correlative structure meaning "sometimes... sometimes..."
- Đôi khi vui, đôi khi buồn. (Sometimes happy, sometimes sad.)
adv
- (xem) đôi lúc sometimes, occasionally