Questions & Answers about Mọi người đến, trừ tôi.
What does mọi người mean here?
Mọi người means everyone or everybody.
- mọi = every
- người = person / people
Together, mọi người is a very common way to say everyone in Vietnamese.
In this sentence, it refers to all the relevant people in the situation. Because the sentence then says trừ tôi (except me), the idea is everyone else came.
Why is the sentence order Mọi người đến?
This is the normal Vietnamese word order:
- Mọi người = subject
- đến = verb
So it follows a basic Subject + Verb pattern:
- Mọi người đến = Everyone came / Everyone arrives
Vietnamese often uses a straightforward word order like English, although it does not mark tense the same way English does.
What does đến mean in this sentence?
Đến usually means to come, to arrive, or to reach.
In this sentence, it means came or arrived, depending on context.
Examples:
- Tôi đến rồi. = I arrived already.
- Khi nào anh đến? = When are you coming?
So Mọi người đến means everyone came/arrived.
Why doesn’t show past tense explicitly?