Y tá đo nhiệt độ và huyết áp của tôi.

Yes. Y tá means nurse.

A useful nuance: in modern Vietnamese, điều dưỡng is also very common and is often the more formal or professional term for nurse. You will still hear y tá a lot in everyday speech, though.

So this sentence is completely natural, but depending on the setting, you might also see:

Điều dưỡng đo nhiệt độ và huyết áp của tôi.

Vietnamese normally does not use articles the way English does.

So y tá can mean:

• a nurse
• the nurse

The exact meaning comes from context. If the situation is already clear, Vietnamese does not need a separate word like English does.

Đo means to measure.

In medical contexts, it is the normal verb for things like:

• đo nhiệt độ = measure/take someone’s temperature
• đo huyết áp = measure/take someone’s blood pressure
• đo chiều cao = measure height
• đo cân nặng = measure weight

So even though English often says take someone’s temperature or take blood pressure, Vietnamese uses the more literal verb measure.

Yes. Nhiệt độ literally means temperature.

In this medical sentence, it is understood as body temperature because of the context. Vietnamese often relies on context like that.

If someone wants to be more explicit, they may say thân nhiệt, which means body temperature more specifically.

So:

• đo nhiệt độ = take the temperature
• đo thân nhiệt = take body temperature

Both can appear in medical Vietnamese.

Yes.

Huyết áp means blood pressure:

• huyết = blood
• áp = pressure

Both are Sino-Vietnamese elements, so the compound sounds more formal or technical than some everyday vocabulary. But huyết áp is the standard, normal word for blood pressure.

Yes. Và simply means and.

It joins the two objects of the verb:

• nhiệt độ
• huyết áp

So the structure is:

• đo nhiệt độ và huyết áp = measure temperature and blood pressure

Very straightforward.

In Vietnamese, possessive expressions usually come after the noun.

So:

• huyết áp của tôi = my blood pressure
• nhiệt độ của tôi = my temperature

That is different from English, where my comes before the noun.

In this sentence, của tôi comes at the end of the noun phrase:

• nhiệt độ và huyết áp của tôi

This means my temperature and blood pressure.

In this sentence, it is naturally understood to apply to both nouns:

• nhiệt độ
• huyết áp

So the meaning is:

• my temperature and blood pressure

This is a common pattern in Vietnamese: one possessive phrase at the end can cover more than one noun in a coordinated phrase.

Yes, you could, and it often sounds very natural in conversation.

The difference is roughly this:

• của tôi focuses on possession: my temperature and blood pressure
• cho tôi focuses on the action being done for/to me

So:

• Y tá đo nhiệt độ và huyết áp của tôi = The nurse measures my temperature and blood pressure.
• Y tá đo nhiệt độ và huyết áp cho tôi = The nurse takes my temperature and blood pressure / does that for me.

In many real situations, cho tôi may sound a little more conversational, while của tôi is still correct and clear.

It can often be left out if the context already makes it obvious that the nurse is measuring your temperature and blood pressure.

For example, in a hospital or clinic, someone might simply say:

Y tá đo nhiệt độ và huyết áp.

and the listener understands whose temperature and blood pressure are meant from the situation.

Vietnamese often leaves out information that is already clear from context.

Vietnamese often does not mark tense directly on the verb.

So đo by itself does not tell you whether the action is present, past, or future. Context does that.

Depending on context, this sentence could mean:

• the nurse is measuring my temperature and blood pressure
• the nurse measured my temperature and blood pressure
• the nurse measures my temperature and blood pressure

If you want to make time clearer, Vietnamese can add time words or aspect markers, such as:

• đã for past
• đang for ongoing action
• sẽ for future

Examples:

• Y tá đang đo nhiệt độ và huyết áp của tôi. = The nurse is measuring my temperature and blood pressure.
• Y tá đã đo nhiệt độ và huyết áp của tôi. = The nurse measured my temperature and blood pressure.

The sentence follows a very common Vietnamese pattern:

Subject + Verb + Object

Here:

• Y tá = subject
• đo = verb
• nhiệt độ và huyết áp của tôi = object

So Vietnamese word order here is actually quite close to English:

• The nurse
  • measures
    • my temperature and blood pressure

The main difference is the possessive structure:

• English: my blood pressure
• Vietnamese: huyết áp của tôi

Yes, a few parts are especially worth noticing:

• tá has a sắc tone
• nhiệt has a heavy, clipped ending and a nặng tone
• độ also has a nặng tone
• và has a huyền tone
• huyết has a sharp rising tone and ends in -t
• áp has a sắc tone
• của has a hỏi tone on củ
• tôi has a level tone

Also, final consonants like -t in nhiệt and huyết are unreleased in Vietnamese, so they sound short and clipped. That is often difficult for English speakers at first.