那个
nà ge
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 那個
That, that one: points to a person or thing away from the speaker. Like 这个, it is a pointing word plus the measure word 个: 那个人 'that person', or on its own, 我要那个 'I want that one'. Often said nèige; people also say it while searching for a word, the way English speakers say 'um'.
Cái kia, cái đó: chỉ người hay vật ở xa người nói. Gồm 那 (kia, đó) và lượng từ 个, đứng trước danh từ (那个人: người kia) hoặc đứng một mình (我要那个: tôi lấy cái kia). Khẩu ngữ hay đọc nèige; người ta còn nói 那个 khi đang nghĩ chưa ra từ, giống “ờ” trong tiếng Việt.
PronounRegister: 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 “那个” mean?
That, that one: points to a person or thing away from the speaker. Like 这个, it is a pointing word plus the measure word 个: 那个人 'that person', or on its own, 我要那个 'I want that one'. Often said nèige; people also say it while searching for a word, the way English speakers say 'um'.
Is “那个” formal or informal?
那个 is generally neutral.