Tôi muốn uống nước nữa.

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Breakdown of Tôi muốn uống nước nữa.

• muốn: to want
• uống: to drink
• nước: the water

Questions & Answers about Tôi muốn uống nước nữa.

What does each word in Tôi muốn uống nước nữa mean?

A word-by-word breakdown is:

• Tôi = I
• muốn = want
• uống = drink / to drink
• nước = water
• nữa = more / another / again, depending on context

So the sentence is literally something like:

• I want drink water more

But in natural English, that becomes:

• I want to drink more water
• or I want another drink of water, depending on context.

Why is there no word for to after want?

Vietnamese does not use an infinitive marker like English to in this kind of sentence.

In English:

• I want to drink water.

In Vietnamese:

• Tôi muốn uống nước.

So after muốn (want), you can directly put the verb:

• muốn ăn = want to eat
• muốn đi = want to go
• muốn uống = want to drink

This is very normal Vietnamese grammar.

What does nữa mean here exactly?