"Xin chào + listener!": Ex: " Xin chào anh!"
"Chào + listener!" Ex: " Chào Lan!"
“Chào + listener + ạ!” Ex:" Chào chị ạ !"
“Speaker + chào + listener!” Ex: "Cháu chào bác!"
“Speaker + chào + listener + ạ!” Ex: " Con chào mẹ ạ!"
Secondly, I'd like to talk about Vietnamese indirect greetings. This way is used in the forms of other speech acts such as
interrogation, request,
invitation, compliment, congratulation…..For
greetings by using questions,
Vietnamese often use any
question to greet everybody. There are four main kind of questions is used in this way.
- Asking about work: “Thế nào, công việc vẫn bình thường chứ hả?” or “ mọi việc tốt cả chứ anh bạn”
- "Asking about health: " dạo này khỏe không bạn?"...
- Asking about the on-going action (private actions): " Bác đi chợ ạ?" , Cháu học bài à?"......
- Asking about family: " gia đình bạn dạo này thế nào rồi?"..
For Greetings by using exclamation, Vietnamese often greet with happiness or surprise as well as intonation and gesture
when the speaker sees the listener after a quite long time.
For example:
Ôi! Có phải thầy không?”
“Kìa! Em Hương”
“Ah! Bố về!
For greetings by using compliments, This polite greeting is used to support and maintain the relationship between
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