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- "The man is me."
"The man is me."
Translation:Người đàn ông là tôi.
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Its a classifier for a person.
A good way that i think about it is like, El or La in spanish both mean the. But in vietnamese there a hundreds of classifiers.
Like ngôi is used for houses and buildings. Ngôi nhà = the house. :)
Thats just the basics.
There is literally no purpose. I assume its there to add formality, otherwise the sentence is correct (but is more "casual").
This course has been out for how many years and this sentence (and others) in the very first lesson still lacks audio?
And remind me why Duolingo has the nerve to try to sell me a paid subscription? I keep checking back to see if basic stuff like this is fixed yet, and I keep being sadly disappointed. I see repeated changes to the look and feel of the user interface, but substantive stuff like this goes years without being addressed.
How am I supposed to learn a language, especially one with as tricky pronunciation and phonology as Vietnamese, without hearing it?
" Toi la nguoi dan ong " is a lot more correct I think. In fact it's right but "The man is me" is already a strange sentence.
No because your sentence is subtly different and means "I am the man". That sentence's focus on "I" while the sentence given is focusing on "the man".
Overheard in the apartment next door: Who would do that for you, baby? Me, the man is me. Nobody else, but me.
Is it supposed to tell you how to pronounce these? I don't understand the symbols, and I'm not hearing a pronunciation. My sound is on, because I hear the bell when I click the "check" button.
Doesnt "the man" imply that we are talking about specific person? Wouldnt at least "nguoi dan ong ay la toi" be more fitting?
How do I remember how to spell "nguoi" I always put "nguoing". Help please!
