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An instance of a compound word "mạnh mẽ" is derived from morphemes mạnh meaning "strong", mẽ meaning "dramatic", fused to create the word mạnh mẽ to mean "powerful". There is a general tendency for words to have one or two syllables. Words with two syllables are often of Sino-Vietnamese origin. A few words are three or four syllables.
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The name of the movie Song Lang is taken from the name of a musical instrument that controls the rhythm in cai luong, don ca tai tu and ca Hue, carrying many concepts not only on stage but also in the spiritual life of the artist. [1] [2] The phrase "song lang" in the work is also subtly inserted by the director to refer to the two men.
Sino-Vietnamese words have a status similar to that of Latin-based words in English: they are used more in formal context than in everyday life. Because Chinese languages and Vietnamese use different order for subject and modifier, compound Sino-Vietnamese words or phrases might appear ungrammatical in Vietnamese sentences.
In rapping and poetry, multisyllabic rhymes (also known as compound [1] [2] [3] rhymes, polysyllable [1] [4] [5] rhymes, and sometimes colloquially in hip-hop as multis [1]) are rhymes that contain two or more syllables [1] [6] An example is as follows: This is my last race / I’m at a fast pace
servant- NOM l-lāh-i DEF -god- GEN ʕabd-u l-lāh-i servant-NOM DEF-god-GEN "servant of-the-god: the servant of God" Agglutinative languages tend to create very long words with derivational morphemes. Compounds may or may not require the use of derivational morphemes also. In German, extremely extendable compound words can be found in the language of chemical compounds, where, in the cases of ...
Vietnamese is an analytic language, meaning it conveys grammatical information primarily through combinations of words as opposed to suffixes. The basic word order is subject-verb-object (SVO), but utterances may be restructured so as to be topic-prominent. Vietnamese also has verb serialization.
English compound modifiers are constructed in a very similar way to the compound noun. Blackboard Jungle, leftover ingredients, gunmetal sheen, and green monkey disease are only a few examples. A compound modifier is a sequence of modifiers of a noun that function as a single unit.