"Ăn ít hơn, nghĩ nhiều hơn"

Translation: Eat less, think more

[Julestheman]

Sounds like a proverb

[CuongCao12]

for 2018 new years resolution?

[SanDigital]

I wrote "eat more think less". I think that says a lot about where my head is right now...

[BossaNova1423]

Are the "hơn"s absolutely necessary in this sentence? It sounds weird in English; "eat less than, think more than".

[ckhadung]

It is necessary. Without "hơn", the sentence no longer has the sense of comparison, in which this sentence's meaning arguably remains unchanged. You are not recommended to apply this (ignoring "hơn") in other cases.

And try not to literally understand them. Evidently, most Vietnamese sentences sound weird in English.

[ecYTPuiR]

As a general rule if every sentence translates perfectly into/from a completely different language, you are probably translating poorly.

[v.ivanov]

It'd become „eat little, think a lot“, I presume.

[ellylovely]

You don't need " than". You just write "Eat less think more

[SheTuti]

Such a sentence sounds like a punch in the face to me xD

[SheTuti]

Hơn, by the way, means more. So it gives litterally 'eat little more=less, think much more=more'

[dpoppinga]

Why is this the first time i got something wrong for not adding a comma. I never add commas and it always says correct :(

[Rielia3]

Me irl

[Michael775713]

To eat less think more is wrong. Why??

[SanDigital]

That's not a grammatical sentence in English. You need a verb... "To eat less IS to think more". And even then, it's not a good translation. The VN sentence is an imperative, whereas the sentence you gave is not.