Questions & Answers about Tôi đọc ấn bản này trong phòng đọc.
In Vietnamese, demonstratives such as này (this) usually come after the noun, not before it.
So the pattern is:
- ấn bản này = this edition
- cuốn sách này = this book
- người này = this person
This is one of the most noticeable word-order differences from English.
Đọc means to read.
By itself, it does not show tense. Vietnamese verbs usually do not change form the way English verbs do. So đọc can mean:
- read
- am reading
- was reading
- will read
The time is usually understood from context or from time words and markers, such as:
- đã = past
- đang = ongoing / progressive
- sẽ = future
So:
- Tôi đọc... = I read / I am reading...
- Tôi đang đọc... = I am reading...
- Tôi đã đọc... = I read / I have read...
- Tôi sẽ đọc... = I will read...