Bảo dưỡng động cơ cần phụ tùng mới.

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Breakdown of Bảo dưỡng động cơ cần phụ tùng mới.

• cần: to need
• bảo dưỡng: maintenance or servicing
• phụ tùng: the spare part

Questions & Answers about Bảo dưỡng động cơ cần phụ tùng mới.

In this sentence, is bảo dưỡng a verb or a noun?

It can function as either, and that is very common in Vietnamese.

In Bảo dưỡng động cơ cần phụ tùng mới, bảo dưỡng động cơ is most naturally understood as engine maintenance / maintaining the engine. So here bảo dưỡng behaves like the head of a noun-like phrase, even though it is originally a verb meaning to maintain, to service, or to do maintenance on.

Vietnamese often allows a verb phrase to act like a subject without changing its form. English usually needs something like:

• Maintaining the engine requires new parts
• Engine maintenance requires new parts

Vietnamese can use the same words without adding a special ending.

How is the sentence structured grammatically?

A simple way to divide it is:

• Bảo dưỡng động cơ = engine maintenance / maintaining the engine
• cần = needs / requires
• phụ tùng mới = new parts / new spare parts

So the pattern is basically:

• [subject/topic] + [verb] + [object]

More specifically:

• Bảo dưỡng động cơ = what we are talking about
• cần = the main verb
• phụ tùng mới = the thing needed

This is a very typical Vietnamese word order.

Why does mới come after phụ tùng instead of before it?