Questions & Answers about Bài này được viết bởi bác sĩ.
What does bài này mean exactly?
Bài is a very flexible noun. Depending on context, it can mean lesson, exercise, article, piece of writing, post, or text.
So bài này means this lesson/article/text/piece, depending on what kind of bài you are talking about.
In this sentence, if the meaning shown to the learner is something like This article was written by a doctor, then bài is being understood as article or piece of writing.
Why is này after the noun instead of before it?
In Vietnamese, demonstratives like this and that usually come after the noun.
So:
- bài này = this article/lesson
- bác sĩ này = this doctor
This is different from English, where this comes before the noun.
A very common pattern is:
noun + này = this + noun
noun + đó / kia = that + noun
What does được mean here?
Here, được is helping form a passive sentence.
So in Bài này được viết bởi bác sĩ, means something like .