# Vietnamese

Pronunciation: US say "vee-et-nuh-MEEZ" /viˌɛt.nəˈmiz/; UK say "vee-uht-nuh-MEEZ" /ˌviː.ət.nəˈmiːz/

## Adjective

1. Belonging to or relating to Vietnam, its people, or its culture.
   - Simple: Coming from or connected to Vietnam, a country in Southeast Asia.
   - _The museum displayed Vietnamese textiles from the nineteenth century._
   - _She wrote her thesis on Vietnamese poetry of the colonial era._

## Noun

2. A person from Vietnam, or someone whose family or ancestors came from Vietnam.
   - Simple: A person who comes from Vietnam or whose family came from there.
   - _Her grandfather was a Vietnamese who emigrated in the early 1970s._
   - _Thousands of Vietnamese have made their home in this coastal city._
4. The traditional food and cooking of Vietnam.
   - Simple: The food and cooking style that comes from Vietnam.
   - _My grandmother cooks Vietnamese every Sunday, and the whole family shows up hungry._
   - _We ordered Vietnamese and shared every dish around the table._

## Proper noun

3. The Austroasiatic language spoken by the majority of people in Vietnam.
   - Simple: The main language spoken by people in Vietnam.
   - _She translated the short story from Vietnamese into English._
   - _Vietnamese is now taught in several universities across Europe._

## Origin

Formed from "Vietnam" combined with the suffix "-ese".

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/vietnamese (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).