Lọ thủy tinh rất sạch.

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Breakdown of Lọ thủy tinh rất sạch.

• sạch: clean
• lọ thủy tinh: the glass jar

Questions & Answers about Lọ thủy tinh rất sạch.

What does lọ mean here, and is it a classifier or a noun?

Here lọ is a noun, meaning jar, bottle, or container, depending on context.

In this sentence, lọ thủy tinh means glass jar or glass bottle.

Although Vietnamese has classifiers, lọ itself is not just a classifier here. It is the actual thing being talked about. If you wanted, you could also say cái lọ thủy tinh, where cái is the classifier and lọ is the noun.

So:

• lọ = jar / bottle
• cái lọ = the jar / a jar

Both can occur in natural Vietnamese, depending on style and context.

Why does thủy tinh come after lọ?

In Vietnamese, words that describe the type or material of a noun often come after the noun.

So:

• lọ thủy tinh = jar made of glass
• literally, something like jar glass

This is normal Vietnamese word order. English usually puts this before the noun, as in glass jar, but Vietnamese often places it after.

Similar patterns:

• bàn gỗ = wooden table
• nhà gạch = brick house

So lọ thủy tinh is a very natural noun phrase.

Is thủy tinh an adjective here?