Chi nhánh ngân hàng ở gần đây.

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Breakdown of Chi nhánh ngân hàng ở gần đây.

• gần: near
• ngân hàng: the bank
• đây: here

Questions & Answers about Chi nhánh ngân hàng ở gần đây.

What does each part of Chi nhánh ngân hàng ở gần đây mean?

A word-by-word breakdown is:

• chi nhánh = branch
• ngân hàng = bank
• ở = at, in, located at
• gần đây = near here, nearby

So chi nhánh ngân hàng means bank branch, and the whole sentence means that the bank branch is nearby.

Why is it chi nhánh ngân hàng and not ngân hàng chi nhánh?

Vietnamese noun compounds often put the main noun first and the specifying noun after it.

So:

• chi nhánh ngân hàng = branch + bank = bank branch

The head noun is chi nhánh and ngân hàng tells you what kind of branch it is.

This word order is very common in Vietnamese and often feels reversed compared with English.

What is ở doing in this sentence?

Here ở marks location. It has the sense of to be at / to be located at.

So ở gần đây means is near here or is located nearby.

In other contexts, ở can also mean in, at, or even to live:

• Tôi ở Hà Nội. = I live in Hanoi.
• Nhà ở đâu? = Where is the house?

In your sentence, it is clearly the location word.

Why isn’t there a separate word for is?