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Questions & Answers about Tôi thu nhỏ hình.
What does tôi mean here? Is it just I?
Yes. Tôi is the standard, neutral way to say I in Vietnamese.
A few useful notes:
- It is polite and fairly safe in many situations.
- Vietnamese pronouns depend a lot on age, relationship, and social context, so people do not always use tôi in everyday speech.
- But in textbooks and neutral examples, tôi is very common.
So in this sentence, tôi simply means I.
What does thu nhỏ mean? Is it one word or two?
Thu nhỏ is written as two words, but it functions together as a single verbal expression meaning to reduce, to shrink, or to make smaller.
You can think of it as:
- thu = to draw in, gather, reduce
- nhỏ = small
Together, thu nhỏ means make smaller.
In modern usage, it is very common for things like:
- shrinking an image
- zooming out
- reducing size in editing or design
Why is it thu nhỏ hình and not something like nhỏ thu hình?