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Originally Posted by jackbl
muc luong co dinh
I guess : muc = mức = standard ; luong = lương = salary ; dinh = định = fix. But the whole sentence "muc luong co dinh"??? why got CO inside this sentence???
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You got it totally correct already.
muc luong co dinh = mức lương cố định = fixed standard salary. The word "định" = fix cannot be used alone, unless you use "định" = plan. Must have "cố" or "đã" before "định" = fix. "cố định" ~ fixed (emphasise that the thing is unchangeable). "đã định" ~ fixed (not emphasise if the thing can change or not)
I think the problem is the sentence doesn't have tone sign, so it's more difficult to guess the word. If you don't find each single word (by using Vdict) making any sense, you may try to search for the combination words (in this case
co dinh) by Google search, and see if it returns the possibility original words with sign (
cố định) and then look that (or those, if Google returns more choices) up in Vdict again. I've just tried this method with only few words. This method will not work 100% though.
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Originally Posted by jf66312
anh bo thai ( not sure if i got the spelling wrong , basically it means i got nothing to say or too shock for words )  |
Haha, the meaning is correct, it's anh bó tay though
. "bó tay" = hands are tied ~ and thus leads to the meaning: nothing can do, nothing to say...