Questions & Answers about Vết bẩn này khá nhỏ.
What exactly does vết bẩn mean, and is vết a classifier?
Vết bẩn is a noun phrase meaning stain, spot, or dirty mark.
- vết means a mark, trace, or streak
- bẩn means dirty
So vết bẩn is literally something like a dirty mark.
Here, vết is not just a generic classifier. It is the main noun. Vietnamese often builds noun phrases this way, with the main noun first and the describing word after it.
Why does này come after the noun instead of before it?
In Vietnamese, demonstratives like this and that usually come after the noun.
So:
- vết bẩn này = this stain
- vết bẩn đó / kia = that stain
This is a very common Vietnamese pattern:
- cuốn sách này = this book
- cái bàn này = this table
So English this stain becomes Vietnamese stain this in word order.
Where is the word is in this sentence?