"I need three hours to eat this chicken."

Translation: Tôi cần ba giờ để ăn con gà này.

[iblinguist]

wouldn't con gà be the animal rather than the meat? Perhaps the sentence was tongue-in-check :D

[Mu6OVm]

Funny comment!

But I've been eating a lot with a Vietnamese family and they say "con gà" or "con heo" to refer to the food, so I guess it is correct (or at least usual) to use "con" for the food too.

[FredrikLar649765]

I read elsewhere that you use con gà for e.g. a roasted chicken. Whereas you use 'mon' (sp?) gà for a prepared meal where the chicken has been cut into small pieces.

[KhoiNgn]

isn't ba giờ 3 o'clock.. and an alternative would be to say ba tiếng

[c3trash]

Is con really necessary here?

[Uzunelle]

Who would actually want to say this?

[BrianBeauv]

What does để mean here?

[c3trash]

One of the meanings of để is "in order to"

I need three hours (in order) to eat this chicken.