"Bạn có một con rắn."

Translation: You have a snake.

[LivxFerrari]

Is that a euphemism

[harijoel]

Alabama black snake

[txttran]

Shouldn't "You have one snake" also be accepted?

[DiegoJaviUnlam]

Noun

(classifier con) rắn

1) snake; serpent

From Middle Vietnamese rẳn, from Proto-Vietic p-səɲʔ, from Proto-Mon-Khmer (b)saɲʔ

Derived terms

rắn hổ mang (“cobra”)

From Wiktionary: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/r%E1%BA%AFn

[SunnyLyngdoh]

Thanks! Same root as 'bsein' (snake) in the Khasi language of North-east India, I suppose.

[seabassman12]

Does anyone know how the "r" is pronounced in Southern dialect? Google translate gives a "z" sound similar to the "d" and "gi" letters in Vietnamese, but I believe this is Northern dialect. Thanks

[Stateofkinesis]

It's pronounced like an "r", similar to English

[Nghidung1]

You are correct. R should be pronounce like r I English. Google gave a dialect sound for r. Which is not its true sound...

[liuhsu]

Rắn and 蚺（rán, meaning very big snake）from Chinese, are they the same word?

[ydcok]

They are not the same word, the Vietnamese "rắn" is derived from a Proto-Austroasiatic word, which is also the origin of the Khmer word "msanh" (the year of snake ).
On the other hand, the Chinese word 蚺 was pronounced as "nhiêm" in Sino-Vietnamese.

[eclairevoyant]

no, the character used in Vietnamese is 虫 + 吝 combined together. 蚺 was never used in Vietnamese