# Vietnamese
## English
### Alternative forms

* Viet-Namese (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Vietnam +‎ -ese.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˌviː.ət.nəˈmiːz/, /viˌɛt.nəˈmiːz/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -iːz

### Adjective

Vietnamese (not comparable)
* 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.

#### Derived terms

* anti-Vietnamese
* East Vietnamese Sea
* Vietnamese balm
* Vietnamese cassia
* Vietnamese cilantro
* Vietnamese cinnamon
* Vietnamese coffee
* Vietnamese coriander
* Vietnamese fermented glutinous rice
* Vietnamese fermented sticky rice
* Vietnamese fermented sweet rice
* Vietnamese greenfinch
* Vietnamese mint
* Vietnamese mossy frog
* Vietnameseness
* Vietnamese pot-bellied pig
* Vietnamese sandwich
* Vietnamese spring roll
* Vietnamese studies
* Vietnamese time bomb
* Vietnamese tuberculosis

#### Translations
### Noun

Vietnamese (countable and uncountable, plural Vietnamese)
* (countable, chiefly in the plural) A person or 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.
* (uncountable) Vietnamese cuisine; traditional Vietnamese food.

#### Usage notes

* 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 before a noun like person, man, or woman ("writing about Vietnamese cuisine as a Vietnamese person"). See also -ish, which is similarly only used primarily as an adjective or as a plural noun.

#### Translations
### Proper noun

Vietnamese
* 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.

#### Translations
### See also

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

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* Sementivae

## Dutch
### Etymology

From Vietnamees +‎ -e.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: Viet‧na‧me‧se
* Rhymes: -eːsə

### Noun

Vietnamese f (plural Vietnamesen, masculine Vietnamees)
* woman from Vietnam

#### Related terms

* Vietnam
* Vietnamees

### Adjective

Vietnamese
* inflection of Vietnamees:
** masculine/feminine singular attributive
** definite neuter singular attributive
** plural attributive

### Anagrams

* Vietnamees

## German
### Etymology

Vietnam +‎ -ese

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌvi̯ɛtnaˈmeːzə/, [ˌvjɛt-], [viˌɛt-], [ʋ-]
* IPA: /ˌviːrtnaˈmeːzə/, [ˌvi(ː)ɐ̯t-] (colloquial variant)
** Audio:(file)

### Noun

Vietnamese m (weak, genitive Vietnamesen, plural Vietnamesen)
* a Vietnamese person (male or unspecified sex)
* (informal) a Vietnamese restaurant

#### Derived terms

* Vietnamesin

### Further reading

* “Vietnamese” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache