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Questions & Answers about Cây đang phát triển.
What does cây mean here? Is it tree or plant?
Cây can mean tree, but it can also mean plant in many contexts.
So Cây đang phát triển could mean:
- The tree is growing/developing
- The plant is growing/developing
The exact meaning depends on context. If you are talking about a garden plant, cây may be best understood as plant. If you are talking about a large woody plant, tree is more likely.
What does đang mean in this sentence?
Đang shows that an action or process is in progress right now.
In Cây đang phát triển, it tells you that the growing or developing is happening at the moment or during the current period.
A useful comparison:
- Cây phát triển. = The tree/plant grows, develops, or is developing in a general sense.
- Cây đang phát triển. = The tree/plant is growing/developing right now.
So đang often works like English be + -ing, though it is not always used in exactly the same situations.
Why is there no word for is in the sentence?
Vietnamese often does not use a verb like English to be before action verbs.
In English, you say: