那些
nà xiē
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Those: points to several people or things away from the speaker. No measure word follows it: 那些衣服 'those clothes', 那些孩子 'those children'. On its own it can be the subject: 那些都是我的 'those are all mine'.
Những cái kia, những người đó: chỉ nhiều người hay vật ở xa người nói. Không cần lượng từ phía sau: 那些衣服 (mấy bộ quần áo kia), 那些孩子 (mấy đứa trẻ đó). Cũng làm chủ ngữ được: 那些都是我的 (mấy cái kia đều là của tôi).
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 “那些” mean?
Those: points to several people or things away from the speaker. No measure word follows it: 那些衣服 'those clothes', 那些孩子 'those children'. On its own it can be the subject: 那些都是我的 'those are all mine'.
Is “那些” formal or informal?
那些 is generally neutral.