Váy ở trên móc áo.

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Breakdown of Váy ở trên móc áo.

• trên: on (on top of)
• váy: the skirt
• móc áo: the clothes hanger

Questions & Answers about Váy ở trên móc áo.

What does each word in Váy ở trên móc áo do?

A simple breakdown is:

• váy = skirt (and sometimes, depending on context, something dress-related)
• ở = marks location, like is/are at
• trên = on / above
• móc áo = clothes hanger or clothes hook

So the structure is basically:

• [thing] + [location phrase]

Here, váy is the thing, and ở trên móc áo tells you where it is.

Why is there no separate verb like is in this sentence?

In Vietnamese, you often do not need a separate verb equivalent to English to be in location sentences.

Here, ở does that job. It tells you where something is located.

So:

• Váy ở trên móc áo = The skirt is on the hanger
• literally, something like Skirt located on hanger

This is very normal in Vietnamese.

Why does it use ở trên instead of just trên?