Questions & Answers about Bơi giúp cơ thể khỏe hơn.
What does Bơi mean here? Is it a verb or a noun?
Here Bơi literally means to swim, but in this sentence it functions like swimming in English.
So:
- Bơi = to swim / swimming
- Bơi giúp cơ thể khỏe hơn = Swimming helps the body become healthier
Vietnamese often uses a bare verb at the start of a sentence to talk about an activity in general, without needing a separate word like the act of or the -ing form.
Why is there no subject like it or swimming with an extra marker before bơi?
Vietnamese does not need a dummy subject like English it.
In English, you might say:
- Swimming helps the body stay healthy.
In Vietnamese, you can simply start with the activity itself:
- Bơi giúp cơ thể khỏe hơn.
So Bơi itself is the subject here, understood as swimming in a general sense.
What does giúp mean in this sentence?
Giúp means help.
The basic pattern is:
- A giúp B + adjective/verb
- A helps B become/do ...
So here:
- Bơi = swimming
- giúp = helps
- cơ thể = the body
- khỏe hơn = healthier
Together: Swimming helps the body become healthier.