đến

See also: Appendix:Variations of "den"

Vietnamese

Etymology

Cognate with Muong tểnh, tiểnh, Tho [Cuối Chăm] teːŋ³ and Kri têêngq ("to arrive"). Compare Proto-Tai *C̬.tɤŋᴬ (whence Thai ถึง (tʉ̌ng)), Lakkia taŋ²³¹, Maonan taŋ¹, and Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dateŋ (whence Malay datang, Tagalog dating).

Most prepositions in Vietnamese were originally verbs: cho (“to give; for”), ở (“to stay; at, in”), tới (“to arrive; to”), lên (“to go up; onto”), vào (“to enter; in, into”), theo (“to follow; according to”), về (“to return; about”).

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔɗen˧˦]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɗen˦˧˥]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [ʔɗəːn˦˥]
  • Audio (Hà Nội):(file)

Verb

đến • (典, 旦, 但, 倎, 𦥃, 𦤾, 𦥃, 𨀏)

  1. to arrive, to come
    Synonym: tới

Preposition

đến • (典, 旦, 但, 倎, 𦤾, 𦥃, 𨀏)

  1. to
    Synonym: tới
    đi đến ― to go to
  2. Indicating a subject: about
    Synonyms: tới, về
    Tôi biết đến ông như một nhà toán học. ― I learn about him as a mathematician.

Derived terms

See also

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