Trang này có tên tác giả.

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Breakdown of Trang này có tên tác giả.

• có: to have
• tên: the name
• tác giả: the author

Questions & Answers about Trang này có tên tác giả.

What is the word-for-word structure of Trang này có tên tác giả?

A very literal breakdown is:

• trang = page
• này = this
• có = have / has / contains
• tên tác giả = author name / the author’s name

So the literal structure is page this has author name.

Vietnamese often sounds more compact than English, so the natural English translation may need extra words that are not directly stated in Vietnamese.

Why does này come after trang instead of before it?

In Vietnamese, demonstratives like này and đó usually come after the noun.

So:

• trang này = this page
• người đó = that person
• nhà kia = that house over there

This is different from English, where this comes before the noun.

What exactly does có mean here?

Here, có means has, contains, or includes.

So Trang này có tên tác giả means that the page includes the author’s name.

A useful thing to know is that có is a very common Vietnamese word and can also appear in sentences meaning there is / there are, depending on the structure. But in this sentence, with trang này as the subject, it works like has.

How can tên tác giả mean without a word like or an apostrophe?