Breakdown of Tôi chụp cận cảnh rồi chụp toàn cảnh.
tôi
me
rồi
and then
chụp cận cảnh
to take a close-up
chụp toàn cảnh
to take a wide shot
Questions & Answers about Tôi chụp cận cảnh rồi chụp toàn cảnh.
What does rồi mean in this sentence?
Here rồi means then / after that / and then. It connects two actions in sequence:
- Tôi chụp cận cảnh rồi chụp toàn cảnh. = I take a close-up, then take a wide shot.
A useful warning: rồi can also mean already in other sentences, but that is a different use. In this sentence, it is a sequence marker, not an already marker.
Compare:
- Tôi ăn rồi. = I already ate.
- Tôi ăn rồi đi ngủ. = I eat, then go to sleep.
So in your sentence, rồi is best understood as then.
Why is chụp repeated? Why not just say Tôi chụp cận cảnh rồi toàn cảnh?
Vietnamese often repeats the verb when describing two separate but related actions. So:
- Tôi chụp cận cảnh rồi chụp toàn cảnh.
sounds clear and natural: I take a close-up, then take a wide shot.
If you say:
- Tôi chụp cận cảnh rồi toàn cảnh
people may still understand you from context, but it sounds more compressed and less complete. Repeating chụp makes the structure clearer, especially for careful or standard speech.
So the repeated verb is not strange—it is very normal.
Why isn’t tôi repeated in the second half?