lẻ
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "le"
Vietnamese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Vietic *lɛh.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [lɛ˧˩]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [lɛ˧˨]
- (Saigon) IPA(key): [lɛ˨˩˦]
- Homophone: lẽ
Audio (Hà Nội): (file)
Adjective
[edit]- odd (not divisible by two)
- số lẻ ― an odd number
- hàm số lẻ ― an odd function
- (informal, of a number) freakish (i.e., an irrational number or a repeating decimal)
- Không được rồi cô ơi. Em chia ra số lẻ lắm.
- It's not good ma'am. I got a very freakish result from the division.
- 2015 August 10, olm.vn[1]:
- [Đỗ Xuân Nhi:] “a mẹ mua 10 m vải, mẹ đã dùng hết 1/3 số vải đó . hỏi mẹ còn lại ? mét vải [...]”
[Huỳnh Thị Minh Huyền:] “a)số lẻ lắm bạn ơi [...]”- [Đỗ Xuân Nhi:] “a[)] Mom bought 10 meters of fabric, and then she used up one third of that amount; how many meters of fabric does she have left?”
[Huỳnh Thị Minh Huyền:] “a) mate, [the answer is] a very freakish number.”
- [Đỗ Xuân Nhi:] “a[)] Mom bought 10 meters of fabric, and then she used up one third of that amount; how many meters of fabric does she have left?”
- 2023 March 17, fqa.vn[2]:
- [HTùng:] “Căn bậc 2 của 6 là bao nhiu ạ?”
[baolinhvu15:] “√6 nếu tính ra số thì lẻ lắm bạn, tùy thuộc vào việc làm tròn đến đâu, nếu hông thì mình để là √2 x √3 đi”- [HTùng:] “What is the square root of 6?”
[baolinhvu15:] “Mate, √6 – if calculated and enumerated – is very freakish; it depends on how far [you're willing to go] to round it off; if not, let's just leave it as √2 × √3!”
- [HTùng:] “What is the square root of 6?”
- (of a banknote) of a low value less than or equal to 20,000 dongs
- tiền lẻ ― change
- (chiefly Southern Vietnam) Signifies the “zero(s)” in numbers such as 805 and 2001.
- Synonym: linh
- một trăm lẻ ba ― 103 [i.e. one hundred and three]
- hai ngàn không trăm lẻ một ― 2001 [i.e. two thousand and one]
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