Vietnamese
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2.1
- noun
- /ˌviːɛt.nəˈmiːz/
- Many Vietnamese celebrate Tet, the Lunar New Year, with family gatherings and traditional foods.
- South Vietnamese
- North Vietnamese
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Watch on YouTubeAnd so would you say that the Vietnamese people were very unmotivated?
- And so would you say that the Vietnamese people were very unmotivated?
- Why did their Vietnamese fight harder than our Vietnamese?
- What commandos got overran by the North Vietnamese overran.
- It was tons of North Vietnamese were coming down a trail.
- Tom Cunningham and the South Vietnamese who's wounded the team member who was dead.
Examples
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The important thing for Vietnamese is to create good seeds for a better future.
Academic text (1999) -
Our hero is once again a Vietnamese or half Vietnamese man of divided sympathies.
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Somebody at Tomorrow knew before the Vietnamese did.
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Two years ago, the Vietnamese had moved in and taken it over.
Fiction book (1991) -
French is not much use because all the Vietnamese who have moved here also speak English.
Blog text (11) -
Everyone knows the South Vietnamese are fighting and dying for their cause.
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In February 1968, the Vietnamese had a national holiday.
Fiction book (1990) -
My boyfriend is Vietnamese, Asian, Indian.
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Our contact in Saigon said the Vietnamese only found our sailors three hours ago.
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They tried to colonize the Vietnamese and they were defeated.
Synonyms
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9.9
A person from central Vietnam in older times
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Vietnamese comes from the name Viet (the people) and Nam ('south') plus the ending -ese (as in Japanese), so a Vietnamese is a person 'from Vietnam'.