# vậy
## Vietnamese
### Alternative forms

* (Southern pronunciation spelling) dậy, dzậy
* (Southern pronunciation spelling, vowel weakening) dợ, dzợ
* (abbreviation) v
* (abbreviation, Southern) z; j

### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [vəj˧˨ʔ]
* (Huế) IPA: [vəj˨˩ʔ]
* (Saigon) IPA: [vəj˨˩˨] ~ [jəj˨˩˨]

### Adverb

vậy • (丕)
* so, thus
    Synonyms: thế, rứa

#### See also

Vietnamese demonstratives :
| Laurence Thompson (1965), Vietnamese Grammar ||||||||||||||||||||
| | | | | | Unspecified | Unspecified | Unspecified | Unspecified | Unspecified | Close to the speaker or newly introduced | Close to the speaker or newly introduced | Close to the speaker or newly introduced | Close to the speaker or newly introduced | Close to the speaker or newly introduced | Remote, already identified | Remote, already identified | Remote, already identified | Remote, already identified | Remote, already identified |
| PLACE đ- (first register) | PLACE đ- (first register) | PLACE đ- (first register) | PLACE đ- (first register) | PLACE đ- (first register) | đâu ‘wherever’ | đâu ‘wherever’ | đâu ‘wherever’ | đâu ‘wherever’ | đâu ‘wherever’ | đây ‘here’ | đây ‘here’ | đây ‘here’ | đây ‘here’ | đây ‘here’ | đấy ‘there’ | đấy ‘there’ | đấy ‘there’ | đấy ‘there’ | đấy ‘there’ |
| REFERENCE n- (second register) | REFERENCE n- (second register) | REFERENCE n- (second register) | REFERENCE n- (second register) | REFERENCE n- (second register) | nào ‘whichever’ | nào ‘whichever’ | nào ‘whichever’ | nào ‘whichever’ | nào ‘whichever’ | này ‘this’ | này ‘this’ | này ‘this’ | này ‘this’ | này ‘this’ | nọ ‘that’ | nọ ‘that’ | nọ ‘that’ | nọ ‘that’ | nọ ‘that’ |
| PROPORTION b- (first register) | PROPORTION b- (first register) | PROPORTION b- (first register) | PROPORTION b- (first register) | PROPORTION b- (first register) | bao ‘to whatever extent’ | bao ‘to whatever extent’ | bao ‘to whatever extent’ | bao ‘to whatever extent’ | bao ‘to whatever extent’ | bây ‘to this extent’ | bây ‘to this extent’ | bây ‘to this extent’ | bây ‘to this extent’ | bây ‘to this extent’ | bấy ‘to that extent’ | bấy ‘to that extent’ | bấy ‘to that extent’ | bấy ‘to that extent’ | bấy ‘to that extent’ |
| MANNER s- (first register) v- (second register) | MANNER s- (first register) v- (second register) | MANNER s- (first register) v- (second register) | MANNER s- (first register) v- (second register) | MANNER s- (first register) v- (second register) | sao ‘however’ | sao ‘however’ | sao ‘however’ | sao ‘however’ | sao ‘however’ | vầy ‘this way’ | vầy ‘this way’ | vầy ‘this way’ | vầy ‘this way’ | vầy ‘this way’ | vậy ‘that way’ | vậy ‘that way’ | vậy ‘that way’ | vậy ‘that way’ | vậy ‘that way’ |
| Nguyễn Phú Phong (1992), “Vietnamese Demonstratives Revisited” ||||||||||||||||||||
| | | | | D$^•$ (Indefinite) | D$^•$ (Indefinite) | D$^•$ (Indefinite) | D$^•$ (Indefinite) | D1 (Proximal) | D1 (Proximal) | D1 (Proximal) | D1 (Proximal) | D2 (Medial) | D2 (Medial) | D2 (Medial) | D2 (Medial) | D3 (Distal) | D3 (Distal) | D3 (Distal) | D3 (Distal) |
| +NOM(inal) | +NOM(inal) | +NOM(inal) | +NOM(inal) | đâu place-what | đâu place-what | đâu place-what | đâu place-what | đây place-this | đây place-this | đây place-this | đây place-this | đấy place-that$_1$ | đấy place-that$_1$ | đấy place-that$_1$ | đấy place-that$_1$ | | | | |
| ±NOM(inal) | ±NOM(inal) | ±NOM(inal) | ±NOM(inal) | | | | | | | | | đó (place-)that$_1$ | đó (place-)that$_1$ | đó (place-)that$_1$ | đó (place-)that$_1$ | kia (place-)that$_2$ | kia (place-)that$_2$ | kia (place-)that$_2$ | kia (place-)that$_2$ |
| –NOM(inal) | –NOM(inal) | –NOM(inal) | –NOM(inal) | nào what | nào what | nào what | nào what | nầy this | nầy this | nầy this | nầy this | nấy/ấy that$_1$ | nấy/ấy that$_1$ | nấy/ấy that$_1$ | nấy/ấy that$_1$ | nọ that$_2$ | nọ that$_2$ | nọ that$_2$ | nọ that$_2$ |
Vietnamese demonstratives (alternative version) :
| | Proximal (*-iː) | Distal 1 (*-iːʔ) | Distal 2 (*-əːʔ) | Distal 3/ Remote (*-ɔːʔ) | Interrogative (rime was a rounded back vowel) |
| Place, attributive$^1$ n- | ni nì này | nấy | nớ | nọ | nào |
| Place, nominal$^2$ đ- | đây | đí đấy | — | đó | đâu |
| Manner r- | ri rày | — | rứa | — | ru sao$^3$ |
| Extent 1$^4$ b- | bây | bấy | — | — | bao |
| Extent 2$^5$ v- | vầy | vậy | — | — | — |
| $^1$ Originally can only follow a nominal (being used attributively), hence nơi này (“this place; here”), nơi nào (“where”) (no longer completely true in the modern language). $^2$ Can be used on its own/is itself nominal, hence đây (“here”), đâu (“where”). $^3$ From earlier *C-raːw (where *C is nonspecific consonant). $^4$ Placed before the head: bây nhiêu (“this much”), bấy nhiêu (“that much”), bao nhiêu (“how much”). $^5$ Placed after the head: nhanh vầy (“this fast”), nhanh vậy (“that fast/so fast”). ||||||

### Particle

vậy • (丕)
* intensifying sentence-final particle
    Synonyms: thế, rứa
    Làm sao hay quá vậy?How did you do that?
    Mày làm như mày là bác sĩ vậy.You're talking like you were a doctor or something.

#### Usage notes

* On the Internet, Southern speakers sometimes abbreviate this word to ⟨z⟩. This is coincidentally also the abbreviation of gì (“what”).
    Z z mí ba (Gì vậy mấy ba)?What's with you guys?