Sách ở trong ngăn kéo.

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Breakdown of Sách ở trong ngăn kéo.

• sách: the book
• trong: in (enclosed by something)
• ngăn kéo: the drawer

Questions & Answers about Sách ở trong ngăn kéo.

What does each word in Sách ở trong ngăn kéo mean?

A word-by-word breakdown is:

• Sách = book / books
• ở = to be located at / in / on
• trong = inside
• ngăn kéo = drawer

So the sentence literally works like:

Book(s) located inside drawer.

In natural English, that becomes The book is in the drawer or Books are in the drawer, depending on context.

Why is the word order Sách ở trong ngăn kéo and not something else?

Vietnamese often uses a very straightforward order:

thing + location word + place

So here:

• Sách = the thing
• ở trong = located in / inside
• ngăn kéo = the place

That gives:

Sách ở trong ngăn kéo = The book is in the drawer

This is similar to English The book is in the drawer, except Vietnamese does not need is in the same way English does.

Why is there no word for the or a?