"past tense marker" in Vietnamese
đã
dah
/ɗaː˧˩˥/
particle
Southern note: Tone sometimes dropped in fast Southern speech
Example
Tôi đã ăn rồi
I already ate
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More from "Tense Markers"
- sẽ future tense marker
- đang currently doing (progressive)
- vừa just did (recent past)
- sắp about to (near future)
- chưa not yet
- xong finished
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