Questions & Answers about Váy này đáng thử.
What does váy mean here—dress or skirt?
Váy can mean a woman’s dress, and in some contexts it can also refer to a skirt. Vietnamese often leaves this to context.
If you want to be more specific:
- đầm often means dress
- chân váy means skirt
So in a real situation, people usually know which one is meant just by seeing the item.
Why does này come after váy instead of before it?
In Vietnamese, demonstratives like this and that usually come after the noun.
So:
- váy này = this dress / this skirt
- váy đó = that dress / that skirt
This is a very common word order pattern in Vietnamese:
- áo này = this shirt
- nhà này = this house
- người này = this person
Why is there no word for is in the sentence?
Vietnamese often does not use a verb like is when the predicate is an adjective or adjective-like phrase.
So:
- Váy này đẹp. = This dress is beautiful.
- Váy này đắt. = This dress is expensive.
- Váy này đáng thử. = This dress is worth trying.
The word là is not normally used here. Using là would sound unnatural in this sentence.