khỏi

See also: khoi, Khoi, khói, khôi, khơi, khởi, and khối

Vietnamese

Etymology

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Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [xɔj˧˩]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [kʰɔj˧˨] ~ [xɔj˧˨]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [kʰɔj˨˩˦] ~ [xɔj˨˩˦]

Verb

khỏi • (塊)

  1. not to have to do something
  2. (intransitive) to recover from, or be cured of (sickness)
  3. (transitive) to avoid; to shun; to escape; to evade; to keep away from; to refrain from; to save (from)
  4. (intransitive, after a verb) to leave (from); to separate (from); to cut off (from)

Derived terms

Adverb

khỏi

  1. (after a verb denoting the result of an action) away from; out of
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