ngã xuống

Vietnamese

Etymology

ngã (“to fall; to topple; to trip; to collapse”) +‎ xuống (“down”).

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ŋaː˦ˀ˥ suəŋ˧˦]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [ŋaː˧˨ suəŋ˦˧˥]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [ŋaː˨˩˦ suəŋ˦˥]

Verb

ngã xuống

  1. (of a person) to fall down
  2. (literary, euphemistic) to fall (die)
    Synonym: hi sinh
    tưởng nhớ các anh hùng đã ngã xuống/hi sinh trong chiến tranh ― to remember the heroes who fell in the war
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