Questions & Answers about Khách sạn đó nhỏ nhưng rất sạch.
It means: That hotel is small but very clean.
- khách sạn = hotel
- đó = that
- nhỏ = small
- nhưng = but
- rất = very
- sạch = clean
Vietnamese usually does not use a verb like “to be” (is/are) between the subject and an adjective.
- English: That hotel is small but very clean.
- Vietnamese: Khách sạn đó nhỏ nhưng rất sạch.
- Khách sạn đó = That hotel
- nhỏ nhưng rất sạch = small but very clean (the adjectives directly describe the subject)
Only in some specific structures does Vietnamese use a linking word (like là), but not before adjectives used like this. You generally say:
[noun] + [adjective]
not
[noun] + là + [adjective]