đắt đỏ
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Expensive, high-priced, costly: Describes something that requires a lot of money to buy or maintain, often implying a high cost relative to value or expectation.
- Dear: An older or more formal term for expensive, still used in certain contexts.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- Thức ăn càng ngày càng đắt đỏ. (The price of food is getting more and more expensive.)
- Sinh hoạt đắt đỏ. (The high cost of living.)
- Mua nhà ở thành phố này quá đắt đỏ. (Buying a house in this city is too costly.)
- Giá xăng dầu trở nên đắt đỏ. (The price of gasoline has become dear.)
Advanced Usage
- "đắt đỏ một cách vô lý": unreasonably expensive, exorbitant.
- Chiếc túy này đắt đỏ một cách vô lý. (This bag is unreasonably expensive.)
- Used to describe abstract concepts like experiences or consequences.
- Bài học đó thật đắt đỏ. (That was a costly lesson.)
Variants and Related Words
- Đắt (adj): Expensive, dear. (The core adjective; is more emphatic.)
- Mắc (adj, Southern Vietnamese): Expensive.
- Cao (adj): High. (Can be combined, e.g., = high price, but not a direct synonym for ).
- Đắt giá (adj): Valuable, precious (often for non-material things like advice or a player in sports).
- Đắt đỏ itself is a reduplicative form (từ láy) of , intensifying its meaning.
Synonyms
- Tốn kém: Costly, involving great expense.
- Giá cao: High-priced. (A more neutral description than , which often carries a negative connotation.)
Antonyms
- Rẻ: Cheap, inexpensive.
- Rẻ tiền: Low-priced.
- Phải chăng: Reasonable (in price).
- Bình dân: Affordable, for the masses.
Related Phrases and Idioms
- Tiền nào của nấy: You get what you pay for. (Implies that expensive things might have higher quality.)
- Đắt xắt ra miếng: A Vietnamese idiom similar to "You get what you pay for," suggesting expensive things are of good quality.
- Dear, high in cost
- Thức ăn càng ngày càng đắt đỏThe price of food got dearer and dearer
- Sinh hoạt đắt đỏA high cost of living