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Vietnamese
Etymology
Sino-Vietnamese word from 事 (“abstract thing”), from Literary Chinese 事. Per Chinese morphology, it's used as a suffix and is fossilized in borrowings. In Vietnamese, it became a prefix to conform to native morphology. Compare other verbal nominalizers such as Rade klei and Japanese 事 (koto). Also see một cách (adverbializer).
Pronunciation
Prefix
sự
- (collective) affairs (abstract)
- sự đời ― life affairs
- sự nghiệp ― career
- nominalizes verbs or adjectives
- sự sống còn ― survival
- sự đau đớn ― pain
- sự tương tác ― interaction
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