Tôi thu nhỏ để kiểm tra bố cục.

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Breakdown of Tôi thu nhỏ để kiểm tra bố cục.

• để: to
• kiểm tra: to check
• bố cục: the composition

Questions & Answers about Tôi thu nhỏ để kiểm tra bố cục.

What does thu nhỏ mean in this sentence?

Thu nhỏ literally means to make smaller or to shrink.

In this sentence, the most natural English meaning depends on context:

• in design/software context: to zoom out
• with an object like an image or window: to shrink or to reduce the size of

So Tôi thu nhỏ để kiểm tra bố cục often means something like I zoom out to check the layout.

Why is there no object after thu nhỏ?

Vietnamese often leaves out the object when it is already clear from context.

So this sentence does not explicitly say what is being made smaller. It could be:

• the image
• the page
• the document
• the window
• the design view

If you wanted to say it explicitly, you could say:

• Tôi thu nhỏ ảnh để kiểm tra bố cục. — I shrink the image to check the layout.
• Tôi thu nhỏ cửa sổ để kiểm tra bố cục. — I reduce the window size to check the layout.

Omitting the object is very normal if everyone already knows what is being discussed.

What does để mean here?

Here để introduces purpose. It means:

• to
• in order to
• so that