vị tất

See also: vitat and vị-tất

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 未必.

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [vi˧˨ʔ tət̚˧˦]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [vɪj˨˩ʔ tək̚˦˧˥]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [vɪj˨˩˨ tək̚˦˥] ~ [jɪj˨˩˨ tək̚˦˥]

Adverb

vị tất

  1. not necessarily (it is not necessary that)
  2. not automaticaly (it does not immediately follow that)
    • 1943, Trần Trọng Kim, “Lời phát đoan”, in Nho-giáo‎[1], volume I, Lê Thăng, page 20:
      […] thành-thử cái xấu, cái dở của mình, thì vị tất đã bỏ đi được, […]
      […] which is the reason why the ugly and the bad in us is not automatically done away with, […]
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