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Vietnamese Adjectives — The Words That Let You Describe

Adjectives are where a language starts to feel alive — good and bad, big and small, the words that let you have an opinion. This page collects essential Vietnamese describing words, from tốt (good) and xấu (bad) to to lớn (big) and nhỏ (small), each with its English meaning, its pronunciation and a button to hear it spoken in a native voice. A note for English speakers: Vietnamese is written in a Latin-based alphabet, which is a huge head start — but every accent mark matters, because they show tone. Vietnamese has six tones, and the same letters with a different mark are a different word entirely, so this is a language where your ears do the heavy lifting. The grammar, on the other hand, is wonderfully light: words don't change form, there are no verb tenses to conjugate and no genders. One handy quirk for adjectives — they come after the noun, not before (you'd say the equivalent of "house big"), and you don't need a separate word for "is". Tap any 🔊 to hear the tones, skim the table, then take these into Linguver, where the English word drops and you shoot its Vietnamese translation from the drum.

Key words explained

• good tốt🔊 That was a really good meal, thank you.
• bad xấu🔊 The weather turned bad just before we left.
• big to lớn🔊 They moved into a big house near the park.
• small nhỏ🔊 She keeps her savings in a small tin box.
• long dài🔊 It was a long drive, but the views were worth it.
• heavy nặng🔊 This bag is too heavy to carry very far.
• old cũ🔊 He still drives the same old truck.
• new mới🔊 She started a new job on Monday.

All 120 Vietnamese adjectives words

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