Căn hộ bị rò nước và mất điện.

Căn hộ means apartment or flat.

• căn is a classifier-like word often used for enclosed spaces or units
• hộ is part of the fixed word căn hộ

So together, căn hộ is the normal word for an apartment unit.

A learner may also see:

• chung cư = apartment building / condominium building
• căn hộ = one apartment unit inside that building

For example:

• Tôi sống trong một căn hộ. = I live in an apartment.
• Tôi sống ở chung cư đó. = I live in that apartment building.

Bị often shows that something negative or undesirable happened to the subject.

In Căn hộ bị rò nước và mất điện, bị tells you the apartment is affected by bad problems:

• rò nước = leaking water / a water leak
• mất điện = losing power / having no electricity

So bị adds the sense of suffering from or being affected by something bad.

This is one of the most common uses of bị in Vietnamese.

Compare:

• Căn hộ bị rò nước. = The apartment has a leak / is affected by a leak.
• Anh ấy bị ngã. = He fell / He had a fall happen to him.
• Tôi bị ốm. = I got sick / I’m sick.

Not exactly. That is a common first impression, but bị is broader than the English passive.

It can appear in passive-like sentences, but its core feeling is often:

• negative effect
• unwanted experience
• being on the receiving end of something bad

So here, it is less about formal passive grammar and more about the apartment suffering these problems.

That is why translating bị word-for-word often sounds unnatural in English. You usually translate the whole sentence naturally instead.

Because one bị can cover both parts of the compound predicate.

Structure:

• Căn hộ = subject
• bị = affected by / suffers from
• rò nước và mất điện = leaking water and losing power

So the sentence means the apartment is affected by both problems.

You could also say:

• Căn hộ bị rò nước và bị mất điện.

That is grammatical, but repeating bị is often unnecessary unless you want extra emphasis or clearer separation.

Rò nước means to leak water or to have a water leak.

• rò = leak
• nước = water

In everyday Vietnamese, this can describe:

• a pipe leaking
• water seeping through somewhere
• an apartment having a leak problem

A longer version you may also hear is:

• rò rỉ nước

That also means water leakage, but rò nước is a very natural short form in everyday speech.

Both can work, but they are slightly different in nuance.

• mất điện = lost power / power went out
• không có điện = there is no electricity

Mất điện usually suggests a disruption or outage — electricity was expected, but now it is gone.

So in this sentence, mất điện sounds very natural because it describes a problem that happened to the apartment.

Compare:

• Căn hộ mất điện. = The apartment lost power.
• Khu vực này không có điện. = This area has no electricity.

Not necessarily.

và just means and. The sentence says the apartment has two problems:

• water leakage
• power loss

It does not automatically say one caused the other.

If you wanted to show cause more clearly, Vietnamese might use words like:

• nên = so
• vì = because
• do = due to

For example:

• Căn hộ bị rò nước nên mất điện. = The apartment had a water leak, so it lost power.

Vietnamese often does not mark tense explicitly if the time is clear from context.

So Căn hộ bị rò nước và mất điện could mean:

• The apartment has a leak and no power.
• The apartment had a leak and lost power.
• The apartment is suffering from a leak and a power outage.

Context tells you which one is meant.

If you want to make time clearer, you can add time words:

• Hôm qua căn hộ bị rò nước và mất điện. = Yesterday the apartment had a water leak and lost power.
• Hiện giờ căn hộ bị rò nước và mất điện. = Right now the apartment has a leak and no power.

Yes. Vietnamese often allows this kind of natural shorthand.

When Vietnamese says:

• Căn hộ mất điện

it means:

• the apartment has no electricity
• the apartment is experiencing a power outage

English does something similar:

• The building lost power
• The house has no water

So the subject is the place affected by the problem.

Yes, that is a very natural translation.

Other natural translations include:

• The apartment has a water leak and no electricity.
• The apartment is suffering from a water leak and a power outage.
• The apartment has a leak and lost power.

The best English translation depends on context:

• current situation
• past event
• formal report vs casual description

It sounds fairly neutral and practical.

It would fit well in situations like:

• reporting maintenance issues
• describing apartment problems
• customer service or building management communication

If you wanted a more formal or technical tone, you might say:

• Căn hộ bị rò rỉ nước và bị mất điện.

If you wanted a very casual spoken version, people might say something like:

• Căn hộ bị dột với lại cúp điện.
  But that wording depends on region and exact situation.

So the original sentence is a solid, standard, neutral way to express the problem.

Yes. In this sentence, both work as predicate elements describing what happened to the apartment.

You can think of the structure as:

• Căn hộ = subject
• bị = adversity marker
• rò nước = leak water / have a water leak
• và = and
• mất điện = lose electricity / have a power outage

Vietnamese is often flexible about whether something feels more like a verb phrase or a condition/state phrase. For learners, the most useful thing is to recognize the whole chunk:

• bị rò nước = to be affected by a water leak
• mất điện = to lose power / be without electricity

That will help you understand and use the sentence naturally.