Vietnamese

• Viet-Namese (obsolete)

From Vietnam +‎ -ese.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌviː.ət.nəˈmiːz/, /viˌɛt.nəˈmiːz/

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• Rhymes: -iːz

Vietnamese (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to Vietnam.
   • 2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Jonathan Cape, page 228:

     As I rubbed my face, a middle-aged man gripped my neck, the way Vietnamese fathers or uncles often do when trying to pour their strength into you.

• Vietnamese balm
• Vietnamese cassia
• Vietnamese cilantro
• Vietnamese cinnamon
• Vietnamese coriander
• Vietnamese mint
• Vietnamese mossy frog
• Vietnamese pot-bellied pig
• Vietnamese sandwich
• Vietnamese spring roll
• Vietnamese studies
• Vietnamese time bomb
• Vietnamese tuberculosis
• Vietnameseness

Vietnamese (countable and uncountable, plural Vietnamese)

1. (countable, chiefly in the plural) A person/people from Vietnam or of Vietnamese descent.
   • 2023, Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls, 4th Estate, page 36:

     They were buried in a gravesite near Kai Tak, alongside other Vietnamese who hadn’t made it safely to shore.

2. (uncountable) Vietnamese cuisine; traditional Vietnamese food.

As with other terms for people formed with -ese, the countable singular noun in reference to a person (as in "I am a Vietnamese", "writing about Vietnamese cuisine as a Vietnamese") is uncommon and often taken as incorrect. In its place, the adjective is used, by itself (as in "I am Vietnamese") or with a word like person, man, or woman ("writing about Vietnamese cuisine as a Vietnamese person").

Vietnamese

1. The Austroasiatic language spoken predominantly in Vietnam.

   Synonyms: Annamese, Annamite

   • 2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Jonathan Cape, page 31:

     The Vietnamese I own is the one you gave me, the one whose diction and syntax reach only the second-grade level.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Vietnamese terms
• Appendix:Vietnamese Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Vietnamese

• ISO 639-1 code vi, ISO 639-3 code vie (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Vietnamese, vie ⁠

From Vietnamees +‎ -e.

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• Hyphenation: Viet‧na‧me‧se
• Rhymes: -eːsə

Vietnamese f (plural Vietnamesen, masculine Vietnamees)

1. woman from Vietnam

• Vietnam
• Vietnamees

Vietnamese

1. inflection of Vietnamees:
   1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
   2. definite neuter singular attributive
   3. plural attributive

• Vietnamees

Vietnam +‎ -ese

• IPA^(key): /ˌvi̯ɛtnaˈmeːzə/, [ˌvjɛt-], [viˌɛt-], [ʋ-]
• IPA^(key): /ˌviːrtnaˈmeːzə/, [ˌvi(ː)ɐ̯t-] (colloquial variant)

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Vietnamese m (weak, genitive Vietnamesen, plural Vietnamesen)

1. a Vietnamese person (male or unspecified sex)
2. (informal) a Vietnamese restaurant

• Vietnamesin

• “Vietnamese” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache