Questions & Answers about Cây có rễ, thân cây, cành và lá.
Here có means to have.
So the pattern is:
- X có Y = X has Y
In this sentence, Cây có rễ, thân cây, cành và lá means that a plant/tree has roots, a trunk/stem, branches, and leaves.
A useful note: có can also mean there is/there are in other sentence patterns, but here it clearly means has because cây is the thing possessing the parts.
Here it is a noun.
Vietnamese cây can be:
- a noun meaning tree or plant
- a classifier used with certain objects, especially plants and some long rigid things
In this sentence, Cây stands alone as the subject, so it is a noun.
Compare:
- Cây có rễ... = A plant/tree has roots... → cây is a noun
- một cây bút = one pen → cây is a classifier
- một cây cam = an orange tree → cây is a classifier before the specific type of tree
So in your sentence, the first cây is not a classifier.