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.

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.

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.

Vietnamese often links nouns together without an apostrophe or of.

In tên tác giả:

• tên = name
• tác giả = author

So the phrase means something like author name, which in natural English becomes the author’s name.

Vietnamese often uses this compact noun-noun structure. If you want to make the relationship more explicit, you can say:

• tên của tác giả = the name of the author / the author’s name

Both can work, but the version without của is shorter and often sounds more label-like or compact.

Vietnamese usually does not use articles the way English does.

So where English must choose between:

• a page
• the page
• an author
• the author

Vietnamese often leaves that information to context.

That is why trang này already means this page, and tên tác giả can naturally be understood as the author’s name if the context makes it clear.

It can mean either one.

Trang is used for:

• a page in a book
• a page in a document
• a webpage or site page

The context tells you which meaning is intended. So this sentence could refer to a physical page or a webpage.

Because Vietnamese can express the idea as this page has... rather than on this page there is...

English often uses a location-based structure, but Vietnamese may use a possession-style structure instead.

If you want a version that more directly matches On this page, there is the author’s name, you can say:

• Trên trang này có tên tác giả

Here, trên means on.

It is understandable and grammatical, but depending on the situation, a speaker might choose a slightly different version.

For example:

• Trang này có tên của tác giả
  More explicit about possession

• Trên trang này có tên tác giả
  Emphasizes location: On this page, there is the author’s name

• Trang này có ghi tên tác giả
  Means the page explicitly lists or shows the author’s name

So the original sentence is fine, but other versions may sound more natural in certain contexts.

Tác giả is a noun meaning author.

In tên tác giả, it functions as a modifier after tên, specifying whose name it is.

This is a common Vietnamese pattern:

• main noun first
• modifying noun after it

So tên tác giả is built like name + author, which English turns into the author’s name.

The tones are:

• Trang — level tone
• này — falling tone
• có — rising tone
• tên — level tone
• tác — rising tone
• giả — hỏi tone in Northern Vietnamese

For an English speaker, it helps to pay attention to the contrast between words like:

• co and có
• ta and tác

In Vietnamese, tone changes the meaning, so the tone marks are not optional details.