吧
ba
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
A particle at the end of a sentence that turns it into a suggestion or a gentle request. 我们走吧 'let's go', 你坐吧 'do sit down'. After a statement it asks the listener to agree: 你累了吧? 'you're tired, aren't you?'. It has a neutral tone.
Trợ từ cuối câu, biến câu thành lời đề nghị hay lời nhờ nhẹ nhàng. Giống “nhé”, “đi” của tiếng Việt: 我们走吧 (mình đi thôi), 你坐吧 (bạn ngồi đi). Sau một câu kể, nó hỏi lại để xác nhận, như “chứ”, “phải không”: 你累了吧? (bạn mệt rồi phải không?). Đọc thanh nhẹ.
ParticleRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ ; en.wiktionary Vietnamese entries via kaikki.org extract, snapshot 2026-07-31 (CC BY-SA 4.0): Hán-Việt reading 吧 = ba · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “吧” mean?
A particle at the end of a sentence that turns it into a suggestion or a gentle request. 我们走吧 'let's go', 你坐吧 'do sit down'. After a statement it asks the listener to agree: 你累了吧? 'you're tired, aren't you?'. It has a neutral tone.
Is “吧” formal or informal?
吧 is generally neutral.