mày hả mạy

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

  • mày hả mày

Etymology

An emphatic expression of anger by reduplicating the hostile usage of the second person pronoun mày, with the particle hả encliticized in between.

Tonal behavior-wise, this is reminiscent of trisyllabic reduplication of the tuốt > tuốt tuồn tuột type.

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [maj˨˩ haː˧˩ maj˧˨ʔ]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [maj˦˩ haː˧˨ maj˨˩ʔ]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [ma(ː)j˨˩ haː˨˩˦ ma(ː)j˨˩˨]

Interjection

mày hả mạy!

  1. (emphatic, usually said while inflicting violence to the other party) you asked for it! eat this!
    Mày hả mạy! Tao cho mày ra bã luôn.
    Eat this, you fucking cunt! You are not gonna leave this in one piece.

See also

  • mày hả bưởi
  • chết mày chưa, cho mày chừa
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