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In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
A particle showing that what stands before it owns or describes the noun that comes next. After a pronoun or noun it marks possession: 你的书 'your book', 老师的书 'the teacher's book'. After a describing phrase: 很好的朋友 'a very good friend'. It has a neutral tone, and is often dropped for family: 我妈妈 'my mum'.
Trợ từ cho biết phần đứng trước nó là chủ sở hữu hoặc lời miêu tả của danh từ đứng sau. Thứ tự ngược với tiếng Việt: 你的书 (bạn + 的 + sách) là “sách của bạn”, 很好的朋友 là “người bạn rất tốt”. Đọc thanh nhẹ. Khi nói về người thân, thường bỏ 的: 我妈妈 (mẹ tôi).
ParticleRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 063 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · 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 “的” mean?
A particle showing that what stands before it owns or describes the noun that comes next. After a pronoun or noun it marks possession: 你的书 'your book', 老师的书 'the teacher's book'. After a describing phrase: 很好的朋友 'a very good friend'. It has a neutral tone, and is often dropped for family: 我妈妈 'my mum'.
Is “的” formal or informal?
的 is generally neutral.