Questions & Answers about An thích chợ hay nhà.
Why is hay used here?
In this sentence, hay means or. It lets you offer choices: either chợ (market) or nhà (house).
Why don’t we see articles like “the” or “a” before chợ or nhà?
Vietnamese doesn’t use articles in the same way English does. Words like chợ and nhà typically appear without any articles unless you want to add specific classifiers or demonstratives for certain contexts.
Why is An placed at the beginning of the sentence?
In Vietnamese, the subject (here, An) often appears at the start of the sentence, just like in English. An is simply the name of the person, so that’s where it goes in a basic sentence structure.
Do we need an auxiliary verb like do or does here?
No. Vietnamese doesn’t use auxiliary verbs in questions the same way English does. You just use the subject (An), followed by the main verb (thích), and then any objects.
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