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  • Words you should learn — 3
  • All words
  • say
  • sai
  • sây
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s a i y

s / ai ay ây – 1x3 = 3

⟨âi⟩ is invalid

  • sai

  • say

  • sây


Words you should learn — 3

wrong, error

sai

Used opposite to đúng

drunk, sick

say

You will need this word if you go to drink with them!

to dry

sấy

Drying machine – máy sấy. Also used in “dry fruit” sometimes.


All words

say

say

sáy

sày

sảy

sãy

sạy

drunk, sick

to winnow; heat rash

sai

sai

sái

sài

sải

sãi

sại

wrong, error; to give an order

ominous

firewood, brushwood; serious disease; to use/spend (xài)

arm span (from trải)

bonze (Eastern Asian Buddhist monk); warden

sây

sây

sấy

sầy

sẩy

sẫy

sậy

sây sát/xát – scathe, abrasion

to dry

is scratched

to lose something

reed

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