们
men
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 們
A plural ending: it turns pronouns such as 'I' into 'we', and can do the same for nouns that name people. It is required on pronouns (我们, 你们, 他们) but optional on nouns, as when a teacher greets a class with 同学们. It has a neutral tone and is left out once a number is given: 三个老师 'three teachers'.
Đuôi chỉ số nhiều, gắn sau đại từ và danh từ chỉ người, như “các”, “những” nhưng đứng sau. Với đại từ thì bắt buộc: 我们 (chúng tôi), 你们 (các bạn), 他们 (họ); với danh từ thì tùy, như khi thầy cô gọi cả lớp là 同学们 (các em). Đọc thanh nhẹ, và bỏ đi khi đã có số đếm: 三个老师 (ba giáo viên).
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 ↗ · 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 “们” mean?
A plural ending: it turns pronouns such as 'I' into 'we', and can do the same for nouns that name people. It is required on pronouns (我们, 你们, 他们) but optional on nouns, as when a teacher greets a class with 同学们. It has a neutral tone and is left out once a number is given: 三个老师 'three teachers'.
Is “们” formal or informal?
们 is generally neutral.