đệ nhất

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Vietnamese

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Etymology

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Sino-Vietnamese word from 第一 (first).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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đệ nhất

  1. first

Usage notes

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  • Used in titles of monarch, for example Elizabeth Đệ nhất ("Elizabeth the 1st").
  • Otherwise, mostly found in compounds and fixed expressions, the normal words for "first" (as in "first person" or "first day") are thứ nhất and đầu tiên.

Derived terms

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