đời đời

Vietnamese

Etymology

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 代代 (“generation after generation”, SV: đại đại), a semantic reduplicative of đời (“generation; lifetime”).

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔɗəːj˨˩ ʔɗəːj˨˩]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɗəːj˦˩ ʔɗəːj˦˩]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [ʔɗəːj˨˩ ʔɗəːj˨˩]

Adverb

đời đời • (𠁀𠁀)

  1. for generations
    Đời đời nhớ ơn Chủ tịch Hồ Chí Minh vĩ đại.
    We shall never forget the deeds of the great President Ho Chi Minh, for generations.
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