ngã xuống

Vietnamese

Etymology

ngã (“to fall; to topple; to trip; to collapse”) +‎ xuống (“down”).

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ŋaː˦ˀ˥ suəŋ˧˦]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [ŋaː˧˨ suəŋ˦˧˥]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ŋaː˨˩˦ suəŋ˦˥]

Verb

ngã xuống

(of a person) to fall down
(literary, euphemistic) to fall (die)
Synonym: hi sinh

tưởng nhớ các anh hùng đã ngã xuống/hi sinh trong chiến tranh ― to remember the heroes who fell in the war

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