Questions & Answers about Phòng đọc có cả sách và tạp chí.
Phòng đọc literally means reading room.
- phòng = room
- đọc = to read
In Vietnamese, it is very common to put words together like this to make a compound noun. So phòng đọc is literally room for reading or reading room.
It is not a full sentence by itself here; it is the subject of the sentence.
Here, có means to have or there is/are, depending on how you translate it into natural English.
In Phòng đọc có cả sách và tạp chí, it shows that the reading room contains these things.
So you can think of it as:
- The reading room has both books and magazines
- or In the reading room, there are both books and magazines
Both ideas fit the Vietnamese sentence well.
Cả ... và ... means both ... and ....
So:
- cả sách và tạp chí = both books and magazines
The word cả adds emphasis. It tells the listener that both items are included, not just one of them.
Without cả, the sentence would still be grammatical:
- Phòng đọc có sách và tạp chí.
That means The reading room has books and magazines, but it sounds a little less emphatic than both books and magazines.