Questions & Answers about Tôi nhờ bạn giúp.
What does nhờ mean in this sentence?
In Tôi nhờ bạn giúp, nhờ means something like to ask for someone's help, to request a favor, or to rely on someone to do something.
It is very commonly used in the pattern:
nhờ + someone + verb
So here:
- Tôi = I
- nhờ bạn = ask you / rely on you
- giúp = help
A useful point is that nhờ is not exactly the same as giúp:
- nhờ = to ask someone to do something for you
- giúp = to help
So the sentence contains both the idea of asking and helping.
Why are both nhờ and giúp used? Don’t they both relate to help?
Yes, they are related, but they do different jobs in the sentence.
- nhờ tells you that the speaker is asking
- giúp tells you what they are asking the other person to do
So the structure is basically:
I ask you to help.
That is why both words can appear together naturally.
Compare:
- Tôi giúp bạn. = I help you.
- Tôi nhờ bạn giúp. = I ask you to help.
So giúp is the action being requested, while nhờ introduces the request.
Is Tôi nhờ bạn giúp a complete sentence, even though giúp has no object after it?