Tối mai chắc được.

tomorrow evening

Breakdown of Tối mai chắc được.

• chắc được: that should work

Questions & Answers about Tối mai chắc được.

What does each word in Tối mai chắc được mean?

A natural word-for-word breakdown is:

• tối = evening / tonight / nightfall period
• mai = tomorrow
• chắc = probably / likely / I think
• được = okay / possible / can work

So the sentence is very compact: Tomorrow evening will probably work or Tomorrow night is probably okay.

Why is the sentence so short? Where is the subject, like I or we?

Vietnamese often leaves out subjects and other parts of the sentence when they are obvious from context.

So Tối mai chắc được might really mean things like:

• I’m probably free tomorrow evening
• Tomorrow evening probably works for me
• That time is probably okay tomorrow evening

The speaker does not need to say I or for me if the conversation already makes that clear.

What does được mean here? I thought it meant to get or to receive.