Vietnamese

• Viet-Namese (obsolete)

From Vietnam +‎ -ese.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌviː.ət.nəˈmiːz/, /viˌɛt.nəˈmiːz/

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• Rhymes: -iːz

Vietnamese (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to Vietnam.
   • 2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Jonathan Cape, page 228:

     As I rubbed my face, a middle-aged man gripped my neck, the way Vietnamese fathers or uncles often do when trying to pour their strength into you.

Vietnamese (countable and uncountable, plural Vietnamese)

1. (countable, chiefly in the plural) A person or people from Vietnam or of Vietnamese descent.
   • 2023, Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls, 4th Estate, page 36:

     They were buried in a gravesite near Kai Tak, alongside other Vietnamese who hadn’t made it safely to shore.

2. (uncountable) Vietnamese cuisine; traditional Vietnamese food.

• As with other terms for people formed with -ese, the countable singular noun in reference to a person (as in "I am a Vietnamese", "writing about Vietnamese cuisine as a Vietnamese") is uncommon and often taken as grammatically incorrect. In its place, the adjective is used, by itself (as in "I am Vietnamese") or before a noun like person, man, or woman ("writing about Vietnamese cuisine as a Vietnamese person"). See also -ish, which is similarly only primarily used as an adjective or as a plural noun.

Vietnamese

1. The Austroasiatic language spoken predominantly in Vietnam.

   Synonyms: Annamese, Annamite

   • 2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Jonathan Cape, page 31:

     The Vietnamese I own is the one you gave me, the one whose diction and syntax reach only the second-grade level.

   • 2023 December 30, Daniel W. Hieber, “Why I hate conlangs”, in Linguistic Discovery‎^[1], archived from the original on 24 May 2024:

     If the idea of “exotic” and complex languages with features you’ve never imagined thrills you, I guarantee you’ll get more out of studying Navajo, American Sign Language, Kikuyu, Vietnamese, Cree, Cantonese, Quechua, or Nuuchahnnulth than Quenya, Klingon, or attempting to make your own.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Vietnamese terms
• Appendix:Vietnamese Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Vietnamese

• ISO 639-1 code vi, ISO 639-3 code vie (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Vietnamese, vie ⁠

• Sementivae

From Vietnamees +‎ -e.

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• Hyphenation: Viet‧na‧me‧se
• Rhymes: -eːsə

Vietnamese f (plural Vietnamesen, masculine Vietnamees)

1. woman from Vietnam

• Vietnam
• Vietnamees

Vietnamese

1. inflection of Vietnamees:
   1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
   2. definite neuter singular attributive
   3. plural attributive

• Vietnamees

Vietnam +‎ -ese

• IPA^(key): /ˌvi̯ɛtnaˈmeːzə/, [ˌvjɛt-], [viˌɛt-], [ʋ-]
• IPA^(key): /ˌviːrtnaˈmeːzə/, [ˌvi(ː)ɐ̯t-] (colloquial variant)

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Vietnamese m (weak, genitive Vietnamesen, plural Vietnamesen)

1. a Vietnamese person (male or unspecified sex)
2. (informal) a Vietnamese restaurant

• Vietnamesin

• “Vietnamese” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache