tôi
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Sense 1
(noun) slave; domestic servant
Register: informal
Examples
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Sources & notes
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Sense 2
(noun) servant of a monarch
Register: informal
Examples
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Sense 3
(pronoun) I/me (used by someone with status equal or higher than his or her conversational partner, but doesn't want to sound too intimate to them)
tôi/bản thân tôi, dùng khi nói với người có địa vị tương đương
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Register: informal
Examples
Wiktionary example (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Sense 4
(pronoun) I/me (used when talking to one's friends)
Register: informal
Examples
Wiktionary example (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Common questions
What does “tôi” mean?
(noun) slave; domestic servant
Is “tôi” formal or informal?
tôi is generally informal.