Con mèo rất dữ.

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Breakdown of Con mèo rất dữ.

• con mèo: the cat
• dữ: fierce

Questions & Answers about Con mèo rất dữ.

Why does the sentence start with con? Doesn’t mèo already mean cat?

Yes, mèo means cat, but con is a classifier commonly used for animals.

So:

• mèo = cat
• con mèo = a/the cat

In Vietnamese, classifiers are very common when talking about nouns, especially animals, objects, and people in certain contexts. For animals, con is the usual classifier.

In everyday speech, mèo by itself can still appear, but con mèo sounds more natural in many basic sentences.

What exactly does dữ mean here?

In this sentence, dữ means something like:

• fierce
• aggressive
• mean
• ferocious

For a cat, rất dữ usually suggests the cat is not gentle and may scratch, bite, or behave aggressively.

It does not usually mean evil. It is more about temperament or behavior.

Why is rất placed before dữ?