yêu thầm nhớ vụng
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Meaning · English
Secretly loving someone but awkwardly expressing it
Literally: secret love, clumsy memory
Examples
Anh ấy yêu thầm nhớ vụng nên không dám nói raHe secretly loved her but was clumsy in expressing it, so he didn't dare speak up
AI-drafted example auto-approved by rule (illustrative, not a corpus attestation)
Sources & notes
Discovered via Nam ngạn chích cẩm (Phạm Quang Sán, 1918; public domain, via vi.wikisource); retrieved 2026-08-01. Source: source ↗ Attested in Nam ngạn chích cẩm (Phạm Quang Sán, 1918). Definition drafted by AI (@cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast) and auto-approved by rule on 2026-08-01; pending editor spot-check.
Common questions
What does “yêu thầm nhớ vụng” mean?
Secretly loving someone but awkwardly expressing it Literally: secret love, clumsy memory
Is “yêu thầm nhớ vụng” formal or informal?
No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.