Xét nghiệm ở bệnh viện.

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Breakdown of Xét nghiệm ở bệnh viện.

• bệnh viện: the hospital
• xét nghiệm: the medical test

Questions & Answers about Xét nghiệm ở bệnh viện.

Is xét nghiệm a verb or a noun here?

It can be either, depending on context.

• As a noun, xét nghiệm means a medical test or testing
• As a verb-like expression, it can mean to test or to undergo testing

In Xét nghiệm ở bệnh viện, it works naturally as the main action of the phrase: doing or getting medical testing at the hospital.

You will also often see it in longer expressions such as:

• làm xét nghiệm = do a test / have a test done
• đi xét nghiệm = go get tested

Why is there no subject in this sentence?

Because Vietnamese often omits the subject when it is already understood from context.

So Xét nghiệm ở bệnh viện could appear as:

• a short note
• a schedule item
• an instruction
• a reply in conversation
• a caption or heading

English usually wants a subject more often, but Vietnamese is comfortable leaving it out.

If you want to make it explicit, you could say:

• Tôi đi xét nghiệm ở bệnh viện = I’m going to get tested at the hospital
• Anh ấy xét nghiệm ở bệnh viện = He gets tested at the hospital

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