Tôi cũng muốn uống cà phê.

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Breakdown of Tôi cũng muốn uống cà phê.

• muốn: to want
• uống: to drink
• cà phê: the coffee

Questions & Answers about Tôi cũng muốn uống cà phê.

What is the word-for-word breakdown of Tôi cũng muốn uống cà phê?

A natural breakdown is:

• Tôi = I
• cũng = also / too
• muốn = want
• uống = drink
• cà phê = coffee

So the structure is basically:

I + also + want + drink + coffee

Vietnamese often keeps a very straightforward word order, and verbs do not change form the way they do in English.

Why is cũng placed before muốn?

Cũng usually comes before the part it modifies.

In Tôi cũng muốn uống cà phê, cũng modifies the whole idea of wanting to drink coffee, so it appears before muốn:

• Tôi cũng muốn uống cà phê = I also want to drink coffee

This is more natural than trying to place cũng at the very end, as English does with too.

You can think of it like this:

• English: I want coffee too
• Vietnamese: I also want to drink coffee

So the Vietnamese sentence is not a word-for-word copy of English structure.

Why is there no word like to between muốn and uống?