khô
Khó is a Vietnamese adjective meaning difficult or hard, describing tasks, situations, or conditions that are not easy to achieve or understand. It can function attributively before a noun (một bài toán khó) or predicatively in a sentence (Việc này khó). The word is commonly extended into related expressions to convey different shades of difficulty.
Common compounds and related expressions
- khó khăn: hardship or difficulty
- khó xử: difficult to handle; awkward to decide
- khó chịu: uncomfortable or irritating
- khó khăn về tài chính: financial difficulties
- Degree can be intensified with modifiers such as rất khó (very difficult) or cực kỳ khó (extremely
- The form gặp khó khăn is often used to express encountering difficulties.
- In everyday speech, khó describes the immediate difficulty, while khó khăn conveys a broader sense of
- khó is a native Vietnamese word and serves as the basis for many related expressions. The